Niagara NDP MPPs Wayne Gates and Jeff Burch are calling for emergency support following news that urgent care centres at Fort Erie and Port Colborne will be closed overnight for the foreseeable future. Beginning July 5th, hours of operation in both Port Colbourne and Fort Erie’s urgent care centres will be reduced to 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. Gates say we have a crisis in our health care system in Fort Erie and across the province because the government has refused to address healthcare staffing shortages. Burch notes that around 10,000 people in Port Colborne are without a family physician, and folks that rely on the Port Colborne and Fort Erie Urgent Care Centres will now need to travel to other facilities in Niagara which often already operate above 100 per cent capacity. Emergency Departments in Niagara Falls, Welland and St. Catharines will still be open, however, Niagara Health is advising that patients should be prepared for long waits if the visit is not urgent.
Niagara NDP MPPs call for emergency support after news that two urgent care centres will soon be closed overnight
May 31, 2023 | 3:35 PM
