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Healthcare Trojan Horse coming to Grey-Bruce this month
Posted: November 17, 2024
(November 15, 2024) By: Postmedia News
A 15-foot Trojan Horse meant to symbolize concerns about the direction of healthcare in the province will be hauled throughout Grey-Bruce this month.
The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions’ Trojan Horse has been touring the province to decry what the organization calls the defunding and underfunding of local hospital services as a prelude to the “gift” of privatization.
“Transferring funding from public to private facilities is presented as the best solution to the problems facing our system. But it is a solution that is actually decimating the public system and local healthcare services,” the Grey Bruce Health Coalition said in a news release.
The OCHU’s Trojan Horse references well-known Greek mythology when the Greeks presented a wooden horse to the city of Troy as a fake gesture of peace during a lengthy war. In the night, the Greek soldiers who were hidden inside the horse crept out and destroyed the city.
The OCHU plans to bring the horse to the municipal office in Chesley on Nov. 26 from 2:30-4 p.m. and at the West Grey municipal office in Durham on Nov. 27 from 9-10:30 a.m.
Each of the events will include speakers from OCHU, the Ontario Health Coalition, as well as local dignitaries and community groups.
Durham hospital’s emergency department is only open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week and lost all of its inpatient beds earlier this year, while Chesley hospital’s ER is open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday and closed weekends, all due to staffing shortages.
OCHU represents roughly 50,000 hospital and long-term care workers across the province.
