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More than 568,000 people in Ontario have been diagnosed with chronic, complex environmentally-linked illnesses – and they can’t get the healthcare, social support, rights or benefits they need because recognition of and services for these serious conditions are not currently available. We have been working for the past few years with the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association of Ontario (MEAO), physicians and others to urge the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) to support the system of care called the Ontario Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health to provide appropriate care.

Funded by the Ministry of Health, government has had a clear, costed business case proposal for this system since Nov. 2013, but has still not acted.

It needs to hear from the people of this province that ‘the time is now’!

Add your voice and send this petition to Health Minister Hoskins; you can email it to your MPP and the other MPPs by searching their email addresses from the link below.

SEND A LETTER TO HON. ERIC HOSKINS BELOW AND WATCH THIS SPACE FOR NEW INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT, COMING SOON!:

Create an Ontario Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health

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Hon. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long Term Care

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 an environmentally linked illness I am concerned and 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,

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You can also copy the following people via email:

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