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Originally Posted by rocketphish
Why the Ottawa Hospital should reject the Tunney's site
Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen
Published on: November 24, 2016 | Last Updated: November 24, 2016 7:11 PM EST
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This is a hospital to serve the city for 100 years. The city is growing west, east and very much south. So the recommendation from the NCC committee is to move the Civic campus three kilometres north, so far north it’s almost in the Ottawa River? It’s moving in the wrong general direction — away from its future patients.
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Holy crap that may be the dumbest paragraph Kelly Egan has written in some time and that's really saying something.
So the downtown hospital doesn't serve the suburbs? Wow, that's a real astute revelation there, Kelly. Next thing you know, Kelly's going to be talking about how disability benefits don't help people who don't have disabilities and how investments in Alberta don't help those people in PEI.
Somebody needs to tell Egan that the Civic isn't the only hospital in town. There are other hospitals serving the suburbs but the Civic IS the only hospital in downtown.
Using the argument that the suburbs are growing therefore we should strip the downtown of vital much-needed healthcare services is not only dumb and irresponsible, it actually contributes to making the problem worse.