The Guelph-Wellington chapter of the Ontario Health Coalition [http://www.web.net/ohc/] works to defend and improve our publicly-funded, publicly-administered health-care system.

REVERSE THE CUTS! SAVE OUR HOSPITAL!

Until the late 1990s, Guelph had two acute-care hospitals. By 2001, there was only one. Subsequent cuts have left the Guelph General Hospital with just 165 acute-care beds to serve a population of 115,000 and more than 20,000 university students.

The emergency department is always jammed. There is a constant backlog as patients wait in ER for hospital beds. Nurses are caring for patients in hallways. Ambulances can't offload their patients because there is nowhere to put them. People are dying for lack of urgently-needed care.

And the cuts just keep on coming. On July 1, the hospital’s ambulatory pain clinic will close. The hospital has already lost its:

• physiotherapy clinic
• out-patient laboratory
• diabetes education program
• rehabilitation clinic
• asthma clinic

It won’t be long before we have no hospital at all.

WE ARE FIGHTING BACK!

On Saturday, April 18, people in cities across Ontario rallied at provincial politicians' offices to protest hospital cuts and closures.
In Guelph, 100 people also marched to the Guelph General Hospital and held a second rally there.

COME TO OUR NEXT EVENT:

TOWN HALL MEETING, featuring Natalie Mehra from the Ontario Health Coalition
WHEN: Monday, May 4 at 7 pm
WHERE: St George’s Anglican Church, Mitchell Hall, 99 Woolwich Street, Guelph


SAVE OUR HOSPITAL! SAVE OUR HOSPITAL! SAVE OUR HOSPITAL! SAVE OUR HOSPITAL!

For more information, email Guelph-WellingtonOHC-owner@yahoogroups.com