Media Advisory - Weeneebayko Area Health Authority to address federal funding for its new health campus issue
May 27 2024 - 8:38AM
PR Newswire (Canada)
MOOSE
FACTORY, ON, May 27, 2024
/CNW/ - The Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) will be
holding a press conference to address the total lack of funding in
the Government of Canada's
2024-2025 Budget for WAHA's new health campus.
In 2007, the federal government signed the Weeneebayko Area
Health Integration Framework Agreement (WAHIFA), committing to
funding 45 per cent of capital costs to build a new health campus,
including a hostel, staff housing, an Elder Care Centre and a new
hospital in Moosonee and acute
care centre on Moose Factory Island.
The new health campus is urgently needed to replace the
75-year-old Weeneebayko General Hospital (WGH), Canada's oldest un-renovated hospital.
Date:
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Monday, May 27,
2024
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Time:
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11:45 a.m.
EST
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Location:
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Assembly of First
Nations, 50 O'Connor Street, Suite 200, Ottawa, ON
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Notes for media:
Available for interview following the press conference:
- National Chief Cindy Woodhouse
Nepinak, Assembly of First Nations
- Lynne Innes, President and Chief
Executive Officer, WAHA
- Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler,
Nishnawbe Aski Nation
- Ontario Regional Chief Glen
Hare, Chiefs of Ontario
- Grand Chief Leo Friday,
Mushkegowuk Council
- The Honourable Charlie Angus, N.D.P., M.P.
SOURCE Weeneebayko Area Health Authority
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