Ontario's public health units are calling on the government to stop using one-time funding to bridge a gap it created four years ago, and to provide them with a predictable source of money as they address a backlog of services built up over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Premier Doug Ford's government announced in 2019 it was cutting the provincial share of public health funding. It moved from a 75-25 cost-sharing formula with municipalities to 70 per cent from the province and 30 per cent from municipalities.
"There is an overreliance on mitigation and one-time funding to underwrite ongoing and predictable costs," the association wrote in its budget submission. Dr. Charles Gardner, the medical officer of health for Simcoe Muskoka and vice-president of the public health association, said through most of the pandemic, health units had to dedicate the majority of their resources to COVID-19.
Priority areas include immunizations for children and youth, the response to substance use and opioids, in-school programs to address the oral health of children, mental health promotion and catching up with food safety inspections, he said. "Eight-month-old babies are showing up in hospital emergency departments without having received one dose of vaccine against highly infectious diseases," she said.
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