{"id":32604,"date":"2023-02-09T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=32604"},"modified":"2023-02-09T17:43:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:43:17","slug":"province-invests-30-million-to-support-regions-covid-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/province-invests-30-million-to-support-regions-covid-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Province invests $30 million to support Region\u2019s COVID recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

York Region Public Health\u2019s continued response to COVID-19 has received a significant boost from the Provincial Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 31 at the Region of York\u2019s headquarters in Newmarket, Newmarket-Aurora MPP Dawn Gallagher Murphy, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health, announced a one-time $30 million grant to York Region\u2019s Public Health Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The money will help York Region continue its vaccination clinics and perform case and contact management, while ensuring that services unrelated to COVID get back to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur government is very grateful for the world-class services you provide and especially for everything you have done throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d said Gallagher Murphy, addressing the Public Health Team, including Dr. Barry Pakes, York Region\u2019s Medical Officer of Health. \u201cI am pleased to announce our government is investing over $30 million in additional one-time funding to support York Region Public Health with the extraordinary costs incurred while working to prevent, monitor, detect and contain COVID-19 in the Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis funding will help York Region partners continue to respond to COVID-19 while ensuring critical public health services are available to all, where and when they need them. This funding is part of our government\u2019s investment of over $170 million in additional funding to support 24 public health units across Ontario to help ensure that COVID-19 vaccine delivery remains available for every Ontarian who wants to be vaccinated and to also ensure public health units have the resources they need to support and respond to COVID-19 and any future variants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also among the York Region Members of Provincial Parliament to speak at the announcement was Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill MPP Michael Parsa, who gave his thanks for the work of York Region Public Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to thank every single one of you on the frontlines, those who do administrative work, [Pakes] for your leadership during a very difficult chapter, every single leader who is sitting here in the front who led by example during an incredibly challenging time,\u201d Parsa told the audience, which included Aurora Mayor Tom Mrakas, Newmarket Mayor John Taylor, Richmond Hill Mayor David West, East Gwillimbury Mayor Virginia Hackson, and Georgina Mayor Margaret Quirk. \u201cA lot of uncertainty, a lot of unknowns. Your leadership that you provided was the calm that we needed. To everybody on the frontlines, please convey our gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to York Regional Chair Wayne Emmerson, since the start of COVID, York Region Public Health has delivered more than 2.5 million vaccines, a show of the Region \u201cremaining steadfast and committed\u201d to protecting the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese efforts have helped reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the communities and they ensure our residents have the protection they need to avoid serious outcomes related to the virus,\u201d said Emmerson. \u201cToday\u2019s funding announcement, over $30 million in York Region will continue our COVID-19 vaccine efforts while also returning our public health programs and services to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough your support, we\u2019re better positioned to build the resilience of the public health offerings and will be better prepared to respond to future health emergency. We will also be able to better connect residents with the care they need when they need it and, in turn, take some pressure off the acute healthcare system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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