Queen’s Park – Today Lisa Gretzky, NDP MPP for Windsor West, demanded the Liberal government admit to home-care service cuts in Windsor and to restore those services. This weekend, in my riding, I’ll be meeting with more home-care patients and their families who have been hit by these service cuts – just as I’ve done this entire month. With nursing visits slashed by one-third, my constituents are being left without the care they need. They are told these service cuts are myths,” Gretzky said. “Will the Minister finally do the right thing, admit these service cuts are real, and apologize to the people of Windsor for saying the exact opposite?” Earlier this month, the Minister of Health responded to Gretzky’s questions about the CCAC slashing its services by saying “it just isn’t true”. Earlier this week he described these service cuts to home-care in Windsor as “not cuts at all.” Gretzky will be meeting with people affected by the home-care service cuts, people like Betty Terry, who is 89 and suffers from dementia, and Madelyn Reitzel, who is 89 and has suffered from a stroke and needs constant care. “There is absolutely no excuse to cut home-care services in Windsor – and no excuse for the Minister to bury his head in the sand. These service cuts are spelled out in CCAC memos – and patients are feeling the effects each and every day,” Gretzky said. “If the minister really thinks that there are no service cuts to home care in Windsor, he needs to order that the home-care services that have already been reduced, be fully restored immediately. Why does the minister continue to deny that these shocking service cuts—not funding, service cuts to home care—are happening under his watch?” https://youtube/watch?v=fTueFaq9QM4
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:03:12 +0000
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