Please consider sending a letter or an email in support of the proposed Ontario Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health (OCEEH).
Sample letter below!
Learn more about the OCEEH - click here.
"About 5% of Ontarians, more than 568,000 people over the age of 12, suffer from ES/MCS (environmental sensitivities/multiple chemical sensitivity), ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome) and FM (fibromyalgia). These already large numbers, which represent only those who have been diagnosed with these conditions, are on the rise.
The proposed centre of excellence will be composed of a hub that will include, and expand on, the Environmental Health Clinic (Women’s College Hospital); and spokes delivering primary care, which could begin with a patient-population-based selection of Community Health Centres."
"At present, more than 568,000 patients with these conditions lack the normal rights, benefits, policies, programs and facilities that Ontario makes available to those with conditions of comparable severity and prevalence.
The OCEEH will advocate for appropriate services and care to be developed and integrated into our health care system at all points along the normal continuum of care; and for normal rights and benefits to be extended to people living with these conditions as appropriate to their disabilities."
Read more about the Vision and Mission
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Letter/Email writing campaign - learn more here.
Sample Letter: LETTER TO
HON. ERIC HOSKINS
Put your name and address and date at the top of the letter below, or write your own.
Hon. Erik Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long Term Care
ehoskins.mpp@liberal.ola.org
In November 2013, a business case proposal for the Ontario Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health (OCEEH) was submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. It was titled: Recognition, Inclusion and Equity: Solutions for Ontarians living with Environmental Sensitivities/Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.
The proposal and its supporting documents set out the urgent need for a comprehensive network of care and support and a much better quality of care for Ontario patients with these conditions, as well as other chronic, complex environmentally-linked illnesses; and for the creation of new research and education capacity. At present, more than 568,000 patients with these conditions are without these services in Ontario.
As a voter with (name your illness)/ concerned about (name illnesses), I urge you and your government to immediately implement the recommendations of the business case proposal for the OCEEH. Both lives and money can be saved by proper treatment of these increasing illnesses. Only in this way will Ontario patients with chronic, complex environmentally-linked illnesses, currently excluded from and neglected by our health care system, benefit from appropriate care and support, just as others with illnesses of comparable severity and prevalence do.
Yours truly,
Sign here
Copy:
Hon. Glen Murray, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change gmurray.mpp@liberal.ola.org
Premier Kathleen Wynne kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org
Other MPPs as you like
Christine Elliot christine.elliott@pc.ola.org
France Gelinas fgelinas-qp@ndp.on.ca
MEAO – info@meao.ca
Go to this link to find your own local MPP and put name here:
http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do
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