{"id":55487,"date":"2022-08-18T06:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=55487"},"modified":"2022-08-18T06:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:11:47","slug":"save-gogama-nursing-station-ndps-gelinas-to-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/save-gogama-nursing-station-ndps-gelinas-to-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Gogama nursing station: NDP\u2019s G\u00e9linas to Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FranceGelinas-2022.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-55488\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FranceGelinas-2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FranceGelinas-2022.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FranceGelinas-2022-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With the Gogama nursing station slated to close Sept. 1, NDP Health critic France G\u00e9linas is urging the government to ensure the community isn\u2019t cut off from its only source of primary care.<\/p>\n<p>The government has known about the looming closure of the nursing station since late July, when it was notified by letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGogama is a small isolated community. Residents rely on this nursing station as their only point of access to health care,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cSeptember is fast approaching. The community needs reassurance that they won\u2019t find themselves without health services at the end of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>G\u00e9linas is calling on the government to work with health agencies in Timmins that are willing to sponsor the Gogama nursing station and have an available nurse practitioner and supporting physician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPremier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones must make sure that a new agreement is signed as soon as possible,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cWe cannot allow the good people of Gogama to lose their only access to health care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Gogama nursing station slated to close Sept. 1, NDP Health critic France G\u00e9linas is urging the government to ensure the community isn\u2019t cut off from its only source of primary care. The government has known about the looming closure of the nursing station since late July, when it was notified by letter. \u201cGogama &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":55488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 17:05:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55489,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55487\/revisions\/55489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}