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TORONTO Advocates are calling for a human rights inquiry into systemic discrimination in Ontario s health-care system that allegedly denies and prevents long-term care residents from accessing hospital care amid the COVD-19 pandemic. The Ontario Health Coalition, along with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, held a news conference on Tuesday calling for the Ontario Human Rights Commission to use its power to the investigate discriminatory policies. “In the pandemic, we saw to our utter horror, the worst mass casualty event in our provinces long-term care history,” Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, said on Tuesday.
LONDON, ONT. The provincial government is calling it one of the largest personal support worker (PSW) recruiting and training drives in the province s history, while the chair of the London Health Coalition argues the plan falls short. Ontario is providing $115 million to train up to 8,200 new PSWs in health and long-term care sectors across the province. Fanshawe College is one of 24 Ontario schools accepting applications for its free accelerated program to train future PSWs. In a release, Fanshawe President Peter Devlin thanks the provincial government for funding the program and providing career opportunities for students. “Our graduates will be prepared to make a difference in our region by providing high quality care in the health and long-term sectors.”
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For far too many seniors in Ontario, the pandemic proved to be a death sentence.
The virulent COVID virus has cost 3,748 seniors their lives one of them my sweet, gentle dad, who succumbed to the virus, along with 14 others, when it ripped through his dementia facility during October’s second wave.
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Both my brother and I got to bid him a tearful goodbye in his hospital room. Others were not so lucky, forced to forever live with the reality that their loved ones died alone, due to strict visitation rules in some hospitals and long-term care (LTC) homes.
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A retired Peel Region cop’s wife is in quarantine in her long-term care facility yet again even though she’s had two doses of the COVID vaccine.
Barry Turnbull says Ann has been confined to her room in Barrie’s Mill Creek Care Centre since last weekend after a staff member from her section tested positive for the coronavirus,
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This is the third time she’s been locked down and Turnbull said it means his wife must consume her meals alone in the room and cannot leave to have a shower down the hall.