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    <title>Stop the closure of Welland, Port Colborne, Fort Erie and Niagara Falls Hospitals Petition: Signature List Feed</title>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #93]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13136125?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:58:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Louis Joe [Signature #92]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Louis Joe, Sarnia,, Ontario, Canada<p>To The Attention of the Minions of the Governmental Hospital System:<br />
Do you realize what you are doing ? - - you are responsible for one death of a person from Port Colborne who was taken to Niagara Hospital, then to be taken to St. Catharines hospital - - - - but sadly he passed away.<br />
Do you feel this person may have been saved in Port Colborne Hospital<br />
You Politicians (such as they are) are never held accountable, you do realize this case should have been treated as murder.<br />
Louis Joe</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:43:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr marc pelletier [Signature #91]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr marc pelletier, brantford, ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:07:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Betty Konc [Signature #90]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Betty Konc, Port Colborne, Ont<p>No report on what he was originally sent here to do and no breakdown of costs involved with any of the recommendations...this man is a fraud sent here to mollify us...what are we stalling this nonsense.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:54:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Tamara Treppiedi [Signature #89]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Tamara Treppiedi, welland, ontario, Canada<p>closing our hospitals will only create more issues than it will solve, people will die and people will remain ill for a longer period of time due to the fact that there will be nowhere to go locally, having one centrally located hospital is only going to kill innocent people that would have otherwise survived if they didn&#039;t have to go as far as they would had their hospital not been closed. We need our local hospitals, if you close them, people with no transportation will have nowhere to turn to</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:30:55 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MR Chris Tellier [Signature #88]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MR Chris Tellier, Welland, Ontairo, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:45:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Stephenie Williams [Signature #87]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Stephenie Williams, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada<p>St. Catharines can be quite a long drive for community members in an emergency.  I was born in the Welland hospital as well as my parents before me.  They have saved my father&#039;s life on a number of occasions, my nieces and nephews were born there.  These hospitals need to be there.  They are important for the well being of everyone in the niagara region.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:24:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Lyndsey Sykes [Signature #86]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Lyndsey Sykes, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:23:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Bruce Lacillade [Signature #85]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Bruce Lacillade, Beamsville, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:52:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. & Mrs. Jim Katsikas, Fort Erie, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:45:59 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Natasha Ferguson [Signature #83]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Natasha Ferguson, Canada<p>This makes no sense for our needs in this region.  I think the decision makers are people who clearly do not understand our area.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:29:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Paul Duncan [Signature #82]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:53:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Tracey Calder Rosettani [Signature #81]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Tracey Calder Rosettani, Fort Erie, ON, Canada<p>Having a very hard time understanding how our government can justify taking away a hospital that always operated in the black.  But they can now spend millions researching a &ldquo;new site&rdquo; for a new Niagara Region hospital!  That research money could have been used to keep DMH as it was!!  Not to mention all the service clubs who raised money for equipment for the DMH only to later watch that equipment be ripped out of the hospital to be used at other sites.  Please leave us alone!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Terry Nicholls [Signature #80]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Terry Nicholls, Welland, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:33:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MiSs Carli Shiner [Signature #79]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MiSs Carli Shiner, St Catharine&#039;s, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:30:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #78]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, tacoma, wa, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:19:48 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Nancy Hoover [Signature #77]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nancy Hoover, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:58:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Brinell Power [Signature #76]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Brinell Power, Welland, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:20:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Anonymous [Signature #75]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada<p>seems the lives of the people in our area, do not matter to the Government.  Why?</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:13:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Andrew Allin Faragalli [Signature #74]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andrew Allin Faragalli, Fenwick, Ontario, Canada<p>Fix the existing hospitals. Building a new one is insane. And scary! It will leave many feeling vulnerable and fearful not having a hospital near them. You are taking away a great privilege and security.</p>

<p>Please reconsider!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:55:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr david rosettani [Signature #73]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr david rosettani, fort erie, ont, Canada<p>fort erie&#039;s hosptial always operated in the black.  keep the hospital open as everything else has / is closed.  Perhaps that will give retirees a reason to locate here!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:39:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Alicia Velasquez [Signature #72]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Alicia Velasquez, St. Catharines]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #71]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Beamsville]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:14:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Jessica Jimenez [Signature #70]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jessica Jimenez]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:14:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Vincent Cottone [Signature #69]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Vincent Cottone, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:06:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Amie Clapp-Vallee [Signature #68]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Amie Clapp-Vallee, Welland, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:05:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Shari Sacco [Signature #67]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shari Sacco, Welland, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:57:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Randy Paura [Signature #66]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Randy Paura, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada<p>Well, if anyone is reading this, the local Hospital Board of Trustees that ran them in the black (not a loss) should be in charge of the Health Care System in Ontario, and contribute to its further improvements.</p>

<p>At the very least the LHINs should be run by elected representatives and held accountable.</p>

<p>There is a better way to delivery health care in Ontario.  Administrative efficiency, accountability, less bureaucracy and more business and fiscal sense.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:57:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Laura Wright [Signature #65]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Laura Wright, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada<p>Stop closing hospitals in the Niagara region. This idea of servicing the entire region with 1 super hospital is absolutely ridiculous.  How many more people have to die because it took too long to get to an emergency care unit.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:41:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr.& Mrs. Joe &amp; Anne Kranics [Signature #64]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr.& Mrs. Joe &amp; Anne Kranics, Fort Erie, ON., Canada<p>We desperately need a hospital to replace the one taken from us that met our needs. We need it placed in an area of easy access on a main highway such as the QEW. We need the people of Fort Erie to speak up and express their concerns and the Mayor and Council to support the wishes of the people of Fort Erie who have voted them in.We need to be heard and given equal services as many other Ontario communities enjoy. WE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP ! People are dying &amp; getting sick in hospitals.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:24:13 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ashlea brockway [Signature #63]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:06:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #62]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:05:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Amber Estabrooks [Signature #61]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Amber Estabrooks, Welland, Ontario, Canada<p>WE NEED A HOSPITAL HERE. HAVING TWIN BABIES AND NO HOSPITAL NEAR ME IS MY BIGGEST FEAR.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:05:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Lori Sinclair [Signature #60]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lori Sinclair]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:45:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #59]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:23:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Fiona McMurran [Signature #58]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fiona McMurran, Welland, Ontario, Canada<p>Kevin Smith fails to convince residents of Niagara south that his proposal (closing all current hospital sites in the hope of a new hospital sometime in the future) is really in the best interests of patients.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Alana Wallis [Signature #57]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alana Wallis]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:02:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Roswitha Koenig [Signature #56]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Roswitha Koenig]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:50:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Tami Vujovic [Signature #55]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Tami Vujovic, Welland, Ontario, Canada<p>We NEED all of these hospitals!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:39:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Matthew Smith [Signature #54]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Matthew Smith, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada<p>Typically it takes an ambulance call 5 minutes to respond and 11 minutes to deliver that patient to the hospital&#039;s urgent care. The person is severely injurged and needs emergancy surgery; By getting there in 15 minutes or less that person survives. With removing all our major city hospitals and replacing one,  hospital it triples the delivery time of that patient from 15 minutes by ambulance to 45 minutes PLUS. That patient that would have survived is now dead. How can you let that happen?</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:16:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Meaghan Smith [Signature #53]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Meaghan Smith, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada<p>The closure of these four hospitals will not only cause more deaths on route by ambulance because of the distance, but it is also going to disallow the citizens without transportation to get the appropriate health care they need. The Niagara Region cannot possibly make a hospital large enough to hold the entire Niagara population AND it&#039;s tourists. DO NOT CLOSE THE HOSPITALS.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs. Catriona Faragalli [Signature #52]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Catriona Faragalli, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:01:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr John Cheriton [Signature #51]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:37:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Theresa Nero [Signature #50]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Theresa Nero, Welland, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:27:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss Christine Trumble [Signature #49]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Christine Trumble, Welland, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:59:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr anthony sabucco<p>Please do not shut down these hospitals. The citizens of these areas need health care that is accessible to them, in a timely manner. Ask yourself this question, if your daughter or son was involved in an accident and needed immediate assistance or else they would die, would you want to have medical help accessible to them? Obviously the answer is keep the hospitals and upgrade their facilities.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Laura Wilcox [Signature #47]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:46:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Shannon Chernish [Signature #46]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Shannon Chernish, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:42:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Jeannette Faragalli [Signature #45]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jeannette Faragalli, Fenwick, Ontario, Canada<p>We desperately need these medical facilities. Please *do not close them down!*</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:55:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs jaimie bilodeau, welland, ontario<p>PLEASE keep the hospitals open! It could, and likely will mean the difference between life and death for some people. At least keep the one in Welland open, as Welland is central! The St. Catharines Hospital is TOO FAR to drive for people living in Port Colborne and Fort Erie!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>ms cindy ann pare [Signature #43]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms cindy ann pare, port colborne, ontario, Canada<p>In Port Colborne we do not have a walk-in clinic.  If the Urgent Care centre at the port colborne hospital is not available where will people go for non-emergency help?  You cannot take an ambulance for a non-emergency if you do not have transportation.  There are a lot of people in Port Colborne who do not have transportation, how will they get the care they need?</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs carol murray<p>STOP WASTING OUR MONEY IF YOU THINK L WILL EVER EVER DONATE TO A SCHOOL OR A HOSPITAL FUND EVER AGAIN I WILL NOT..MY  MONEY IS NOT GOING TO BE USED TO TEAR DOWN A BUILDING ANYMORE....KEEP WELLAND OPEN KEEP THEM ALL OPEN AND FORGET THE NEW ONE FOR PETES SAKE....LEARN HOW TO SPEND OUR MONEY BETTER THAN YOU HAVE BEEN DOING....NO DONATING TO ANYTHING FOR ME ANYMORE THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE GOVERNMENT...LIKE RAISING MONEY FOR A PIECE OF HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT NOT COMING FROM MY POCKET BOOK ANYMORE</p>]]></description>
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<p>quit wasting more money on new buildings.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Linda Turmel, Cayuga, ON, Canada<p>Have family in ALL communities - this scares me and risks their health.<br />
Seems like a step back to ancient times when you had to drive horse and buggy to the local hospital - each community DESERVES a local hospital to safe guard health and ensure access to close and  timely health care in the event of an emergency- NOT A MULTI MILE road trek to another community.Will create hardships for the poorest among us/ those with no transportation to access emergent care. Please reconsider this travesty.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr& Mrs Edward Gallagher, Welland, On, Canada<p>They need to keep the hospitals opened ,so no citizens  die on their way to the new hospital... need more hospitals NOT less hospitals...</p>]]></description>
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These closures will only create more.</p>]]></description>
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