IHF Council

Ontario Health Coalition: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Ms. Mehra announced that the Health Coalition -- which represents more than ¾ of a million Ontarians, more than 400 member organizations and local chapters across the province -- plans for a major fightback including province-wide townhall meetings, community organizing, protests and escalating actions.

Key Points: 
  • The Coalition also launched a major public campaign to mobilize Ontarians to save our local public hospitals and stop Fords privatization.
  • The Ford government lied to the public leading into an election, said Natalie Mehra, executive director.
  • We will fight this and we will not stop until they stop privatizing Ontarians public hospitals, she concluded.
  • Private clinics take scarce staff out of our local public hospitals worsening wait times for the public system.

Ontario Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

They continue to ignore entirely the critical shortage of health professionals (MRI, CT and Laboratory Technologists, Respiratory Therapists and others).

Key Points: 
  • They continue to ignore entirely the critical shortage of health professionals (MRI, CT and Laboratory Technologists, Respiratory Therapists and others).
  • Despite the governments repeated announcements, the staff have not materialized and Ontarios hospital critical and emergency care are now in an unprecedented staffing crisis.
  • In the Ontario Health Coalitions fifty years of existence, the widespread closures we are seeing this summer have never happened before.
  • The Ontario Health Coalition held 20 press conferences in the months leading into the election warning that the Ford government was planning to privatize surgeries and diagnostics.