Ottawa Area Elderly Deprived of Access to Essential Health Care Is a Violation of Human Rights Say Groups Calling for Commission Inquiry

OTTAWA, Ontario — Tomorrow as half of their name for Ontario’s Human Rights Commission to conduct a ground-breaking human rights inquiry into systemic discrimination based mostly on age in opposition to the aged within the provision of hospital and long-term care the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and the Advocacy Centre for Elderly (ACE) will launch native Ottawa particular well being system numbers displaying why the inquiry is required.

Ottawa has some of highest charges of hospital overcrowding within the province and over 280 long-term care residents died of COVID-19 – many of them with insufficient care and by no means given the choice to go to hospital as they have been ailing and dying after contracting the virus. Long-standing ‘de-hospitalization’ and rationing of hospital and long-term care are well being insurance policies that disproportionately damage the aged and have to be challenged, say OHC, OCHU/CUPE and ACE.

WHO:		Natalie Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition (OHC)
		Michael Hurley, President, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE)
		Jane Meadus, Staff Lawyer and Institutional Advocate, Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE)
		Adriel Weaver, Lawyer, Goldblatt Partners

WHAT:		Media convention to evaluation Ottawa wait-times, hospital overcrowding and affected person offloading to underscore why a Human Rights Commission public inquiry below the Human Rights Code to examine systemic discrimination based mostly on age in opposition to the aged within the provision of hospital and long-term care in Ontario is required.

WHERE:		http://bit.ly/OHRC-systemic-discrimination

WHEN:		Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 11 a.m.

The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) represents greater than half a million folks and 400 organizations devoted to defending and bettering public well being care within the public curiosity. OCHU is the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in Ontario. CUPE represents practically 50,000 hospital employees throughout Ontario and one other 40,000 well being care employees working in long-term care and group settings. The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly is a group based mostly authorized clinic for low-income senior residents. ACE is the primary authorized clinic in Canada to specialize within the authorized issues of seniors.

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