December 7, 2005 LHINs
may not be here yet, but we have seen the future of hospital services. In Ajax,
the Ajax-Pickering site of the Rouge Valley hospital will have its pediatric and
obstetric services transferred to Scarborough Dec. 14 – a foreshadowing of
things to come under the Liberal Local Health Integration Networks.
More than 1,200 people
attended a public meeting in Ajax to protest the planned loss of services which
will force mothers and children onto the 401 – if they have a car (there is very
little public transit from Ajax or Pickering to the Centennial site at Neilson
Road and Ellesmere in Toronto). The two sites are about 20 kilometers apart.
Connie Ferrarra, Local 311
President, spoke on behalf of OPSEU at the meeting. She called the LHINs the
“Local Health Disintegration Networks”.
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