Canada Faces Growing Loss of Maternity Wards
source: http://www.womensenews.org/story/medicine/101220/canada-faces-growing-loss-maternity-wards
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Jim Curran is the third generation of his family to be born at the Niagara Falls General Hospital in Ontario, Canada.
Two of his three children make the fourth.
But any chances of a fifth generation being born there are in doubt.
Two years ago, the Niagara Health System, an organization managing a network of 12 hospitals in the Niagara Falls region of Ontario, announced a plan to centralize maternity care by closing two wards and expanding the one at the hospital in St. Catharine, a neighboring town northeast of Niagara Falls.
Curran, 46, a real estate broker, has spent off hours fighting to save the maternity unit at Niagara Falls General Hospital. Losing the ward, he says, will make it hard for women, particularly those who don't have their own cars, to reach medical help.
"We're in the snow belt up here," he said in a recent phone interview, "so what happens when the roads are closed?"
The maternity ward closings in the Niagara Falls region are part of a looming maternity care crisis in Ontario and across Canada, a nation often praised for its universal health care system.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/medicine/101220/canada-faces-growing-loss-mater...
Two of his three children make the fourth.
But any chances of a fifth generation being born there are in doubt.
Two years ago, the Niagara Health System, an organization managing a network of 12 hospitals in the Niagara Falls region of Ontario, announced a plan to centralize maternity care by closing two wards and expanding the one at the hospital in St. Catharine, a neighboring town northeast of Niagara Falls.
Curran, 46, a real estate broker, has spent off hours fighting to save the maternity unit at Niagara Falls General Hospital. Losing the ward, he says, will make it hard for women, particularly those who don't have their own cars, to reach medical help.
"We're in the snow belt up here," he said in a recent phone interview, "so what happens when the roads are closed?"
The maternity ward closings in the Niagara Falls region are part of a looming maternity care crisis in Ontario and across Canada, a nation often praised for its universal health care system.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/medicine/101220/canada-faces-growing-loss-mater...
