Smaller public-health units fear big impact from Ontario budget cuts

Health officials in rural parts of Ontario are bracing to learn how provincial funding cuts to public-health units will affect the services they can offer.

“Our fear is that our municipalities are going to be stuck with paying more, which they can’t afford … and at the same time, we’ll lose the ability to have localized flavour to deliver our services,” said Paul Roumeliotis, medical officer of health and chief executive of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit, pointing to the smaller population size – and therefore budgets – of rural regions.

Some pockets of the region are also predominantly francophone, requiring bilingual health workers. In addition to budget cuts made on an “aggressive timeline,” it’s unclear how the new governance model of fewer public-health units will continue to meet local needs, Dr. Roumeliotis said. “It’s a difficult thing to disentangle. It’s a complicated, heterogeneous type of set-up in the province.”

Another hurdle is that municipal budgets for the year have already been set, said Penny Sutcliffe, a medical officer of health and CEO for the Sudbury and Districts area. Her unit has put a freeze to hiring and non-essential expenditures until the province provides more information about how it will implement its plans.

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