TORONTO, Ont. – Defenders of public
health care and front line workers from as far away
as Sudbury and Kingston will converge at the Rouge
Valley Hospital System’s Centenary site this Monday,
June 23 to draw attention to the severe erosion of
hospital services being proposed for the communities
of Scarborough, Ajax and Pickering.
The Centenary and Ajax-Pickering
hospital sites that serve these communities are
facing a level of budget cuts that will severely
compromise their ability to meet the health care
needs of residents in these communities. Under
proposed plans, 220 front line workers and nurses
are threatened with layoffs, 36 hospital beds will
be cut, bed occupancy levels will increase
dramatically, and cleaning staff will be laid off.
By standing by and doing nothing,
the Ontario government is also ignoring mounting
evidence that links high hospital bed occupancy
rates and cuts to cleaning staff with increased risk
of patients dying from hospital-acquired infections.
At this event:
Date:
Monday, June 23, 2008
Time: 11:30
a.m - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Centenary Hospital
2867 Ellesmere Road (Between Markham &
Neilson)
Speakers
will include:
Sid Ryan,
CUPE Ontario President
Warren (Smokey) Thomas,
OPSEU President
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