Public health units are asking the government to boost their overall funding by $145 million so they can meet provincially mandated standards
TORONTO — Ontario's public health units are calling on the government to stop using one-time funding to bridge a gap it created four years ago, and to provide them with a predictable source of money as they address a backlog of services built up over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, the Association of Local Public Health Agencies is asking the government to permanently revert to the original funding level in its upcoming budget. A spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones noted in a statement that the money flowing to public health units still reflects a 75 per cent contribution from the province.The public health units are asking the government to boost their overall funding by $145 million so they can meet provincially mandated standards, handle inflationary costs, and catch up on services backlogged due to the pandemic.
"Simply getting our staff back to general programming wouldn't be enough for us to immediately be back to the optimal level of program delivery that we had before the pandemic," Gardner said. The pandemic has resulted in a growing number of children not being vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella, Catherine Kitts, the chair of the Ottawa Board of Health recently told a legislative committee.
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