Urgent Care Centre needs funding: Burch
A plea from an area NDP MPP for the province to hire doctors and nurses for the Port Colborne Urgent Care Centre.
Niagara Centre's Jeff Burch is urging the Ford government to scrap what he calls the wage squeezing Bill 124, and pay health care workers the wages and incentives they need. He says Bill 124 is driving nurses away.
His call comes in response to the Urgent Care centre closing for a 16 hour period this weekend starting tomorrow at 4pm. The Centre says it exhausted efforts to find help from outside the Niagara Region, but other hospitals are facing similar circumstances.
Burch says it's appaling to think a senior or a child needing critical care this weekend may have to travel long distances or delay treatment because the centre is closed. He adds this weekend nearly 20,000 people will not have access to urgent care services.
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