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Last month, The BBOT wrote a strongly worded letter
to the Premier and Minister of Health urging them to
keep Peel Memorial Hospital open, calling the closing
a “health care crisis” for Brampton.
“Hospitals are a responsibility of the provincial government,
and as such, your government is accountable for ensuring
that Brampton has adequate hospital care that is commensurate
with our large and growing population, and with the
higher levels of service provided throughout the province,”
Ford said in the letter.
Even when Brampton Civic Hospital opens with 479 beds,
a ratio of one bed for approximately every 1,000 residents,
“it is clear that Brampton will be under-serviced in
hospital care when you compare to Ontario’s average
of 2.7 beds per 1,000 population. PEI has 3.4 per beds
1,000 population, Nova Scotia 4.0 per 1,000 population
and New Brunswick 5.3 per 1,000 population,” Ford says.
“Brampton expects and frankly deserves the same level
of care.”
As of August 31, the BBOT had not received a response
to its letter.
“Our campaign is a call to action for Brampton residents.
This is not a business issue; it’s a public health issue.
As a community we need to let the Premier and Health
Minister know we will not accept this level of hospital
care in Canada’s 11th largest city. We need two hospitals
in Brampton and we have an opportunity to get that commitment
before the Oct. 10 Ontario election,” Ford said. “We
must act now.”
The Brampton Board of Trade is asking the business community
and residents of Brampton to visit www.saveourhospital.ca
and fill in the online petition that will be directly
emailed to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Minister
of Health George Smitherman about the need to keep Peel
Memorial Hospital open. “It is critical that our community
send a loud and clear message that we deserve two hospitals
in Brampton and join this campaign.”
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