NDP MPPs call out Ford’s health care cuts in Sudbury

SUDBURY – NDP MPP Jamie West (Sudbury) and MPP Gélinas (Nickel Belt) have released the following joint statement in response to the threat of losing 135 frontline health care workers and 35 hospital beds in Sudbury.

"These aren’t just numbers on a page.” Said West. “These are the hard-working frontline health care workers who provide care and support to our loved ones. Northern communities are already stretched thin. We're tired of being forgotten and forced to pick up the pieces of a system that needs more support not cuts. Workers across our hospitals deserve better from this Conservative Government as they continue to worsen hallway medicine and allowed layoffs like the Liberals before them. Northern Ontario deserves better and cannot afford further erosion to our health care services.”

“What’s happening in Sudbury is a symptom of a much bigger problem.” Said Gélinas. “Ford and his government are starving our health care system of the funding it desperately needs and the North is feeling the deepest impacts of those choices. Make no mistake, these are calculated choices by this conservative government. When hospitals are forced to cut staff and beds, we see longer waits, hallway health care and communities losing the care they count on. Once again, Ford is turning his back on Northen Ontario and Sudbury.”