Press Release |
For Immediate Release October 25, 2010
Local Health Integration Network Failing York Region
(Queen’s Park) Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees took the case of 28 year old David Brock to the floor of the Legislature today and in doing so, called into question the competency of the Central LHIN, the organization charged with the responsibility of assessing and planning for local health services.
David Brock has Duchenne's musculatory dystrophy, is in a wheelchair, has serious respiratory, heart, bowel and urinary problems, and requires continuous mechanical ventilatory support 24 hours a day.
David's parents, John and Joanne Brock, both over 60 years of age, can no longer provide the complex, continuous care he requires. They've been told by the Community Care Access Centre that there is not one community-based facility in all of York Region that can provide the level of care David needs.
Klees has been advocating for the Brocks, but despite appeals to the CCAC, the Central LHIN and the Ministry of Health, David and his parents are left desperate. The only alternative is a hospital ICU at a cost of more than $3,000 per day.
"The Ministry's own Chronic Ventilation Strategy Task Force graphically pointed out the enormous costs associated with this alternative in June, 2006," said Klees. "Given the mandate of the Central LHIN to plan for local health care needs, why after so many years is York Region still without an appropriate care facility for people like David?”
"This is just one more example of how useless these multimillion dollar LHIN organizations are," said Klees, adding that a PC government would eliminate the bureaucratic organization and drive the much needed healthcare dollars to actually delivering front line services.
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References:
Frank Klees, MPP
416 509 8999
Video available at www.frank-klees.on.ca