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Ontario Health Coalition |
MEDIA RELEASE |
September 25, 2002
For-profit MRI & CT Scan Update: Clement says he's looking at it, Eves says "policy is evolving"
On Thursday, the Ontario Health Coalition released our report "Scanning For Profit: A Critical Review of the Evidence Regarding For-Profit MRI and CT Clinics" in a press conference at Queen's Park. (The report is available on our website, to download the report click here. To view the report online click here.).Media response was excellent. The story was carried every hour on CBC radio and was featured in articles in the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail as well as in local media across the province.
By Friday, Ontario Health Minister Tony Clement told the CBC that he is looking at the findings in the report -- that if for-profit clinics are not faster, better, cheaper then the government won't privatize. Ernie Eves said that the government's policy on this matter "is evolving."
Let's help him evolve it a little faster. You can contact Ernie Eves at:
Room 281, Main Legislative Building
Queen's Park, Toronto, ON M7A 1A1
Telephone: (416) 325-1941
Fax (416) 325-3745 6195
Email ernie_eves@ontla.ola.org
Ontario Health Coalition
15 Gervais Drive, Suite 305
Toronto, Ontario M3C 1Y8
www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca
phone: 416-441-2502
fax: 416-441- 4073
email:ohc@sympatico.ca