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Tragic Suffering of Elderly – Victims of Ontario’s Discriminatory De-hospitalization

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March 16, 2021
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TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Advocacy Centre for Elderly (ACE), is looking on the Ontario Human Rights Commission to conduct a landmark inquiry into the provincial authorities’s long-standing ‘de-hospitalization’ and rationing of hospital and long-term care, well being insurance policies that disproportionately damage the aged. The advocates are urging the Commission to make use of its powers beneath Section 31 of the Human Rights Code to conduct a proper human rights inquiry into systemic discrimination primarily based on age towards the aged within the provision of hospital and long-term care in Ontario.

Age discrimination happens routinely as Ontario copes with its lack of hospital capability by denying or limiting the aged entry to hospital care. At the identical time Ontario has failed to offer ample entry to and ranges of care in long-term care, cost the three organizations. This has turn out to be tragically acute and brutally apparent in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic when the overwhelming majority of long-term care residents critically ailing from the virus weren’t taken to hospital, leaving them and 1000’s extra in woefully insufficient long-term care, the place practically 4000 of them died.

OHC, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) , and ACE, together with authorized counsel from Goldblatt Partners, will maintain a media convention (digital on ZOOM) Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 11 a.m. They will evaluate the premise of the decision for a Human Rights Commission inquiry. Equally necessary, they’ll define why now – within the midst of a pandemic – it’s important to reassess the province’s well being insurance policies and the inequities in entry to well being care, which exist for aged Ontarians. They can even present Toronto particular well being system numbers.

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)

 

Simran Prihar, Lawyer, Goldblatt Partners

 

 

WHAT:

Media convention to evaluate ACE, CUPE, OHC name for a ground-breaking Human Rights Commission public inquiry beneath the Human Rights Code to analyze systemic discrimination primarily based on age towards the aged within the provision of hospital and long-term care in Ontario.

 

 

WHERE:

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

 

 

WHEN:

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 11 a.m.

The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) represents greater than half 1,000,000 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 staff 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 primarily based 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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Stella Yeadon, CUPE Communications 416-559-9300 syeadon@cupe.ca

Source: Canadian Union of Public Employees


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