South Asian woman. Family doctor and Activist. Immigrant and Settler. Mom of two. Tweets on health, politics & social justice.
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Last week, the Ford government announced that they are closing 10 out of 17 existing supervised consumption sites in Ontario. It's hard to express how truly devastating this policy would be. thestar.com/politics/provinc…
Wondering why health workers across Ontario are raising the alarm about Ford’s closure of supervised consumption sites? Check out my interview with City News to learn more. #saveoursites #onpoli toronto.citynews.ca/video/20…
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Even after a ceasefire, ‘children in Gaza will continue to die from malnutrition’, says Louisa Baxter, a doctor working for Save the Children in Gaza.
She’s currently stationed in Deir al Balah in central Gaza.
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Every day at the clinic, I am confronted with a heartbreaking truth that shakes me to my core. Many of the children who come for treatment are accompanied by adults -men or women- who look at me helplessly when I ask about the child’s medical history. Their answers are always the same, and they never get easier to hear:
“These children are not ours. They are the sons and daughters of siblings or relatives who are no longer here- because their parents were killed.”
The weight of this reality is unbearable, yet it is the daily life these children face. Each visit is a reminder of lives torn apart, families shattered, and childhoods forever stolen.
#SaveNorthGaza #GazaGenocide
Ontario government could face potential legal challenge over supervised consumption site ban globalnews.ca/video/10870542…
Yesterday, Ontario turned back the clock to the stone age in terms of public health measures.
This legislation will kill people and we will all see the consequences. More overdoses, more deaths, more unsafe public drug use.
globalnews.ca/news/10875443/… #onpoli
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#NEW: Doctors trying to set up volunteer OPS outside Royal Jubilee Hospital told to leave hospital grounds by security and Island Health reps. Docs say this is a life saving intervention that’d also address in hospital drug use.
Story TK for @Filtermag_org
Here and abroad, health-care workers bear witness to the world’s worst atrocities theconversation.com/here-and… via @ConversationCA
Breaking: A delegation of health workers sent Doug Ford an open letter today raising concerns from over 600 health workers across Ontario over the cruel and deadly decision to close supervised consumption sites in Ontario. Press release attached. #onpoli
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Supervised consumption sites save lives every single day. These closures must be reversed because people are dying.
Media Advisory: Over 600 Ontario health workers have signed an open letter calling on Ford govt to reverse their deadly decision to close supervised consumption services. Health workers will be at Queen’s Park today at 9:30am speaking to our concerns. #onpoli
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So, so many signatures from health practitioners in support of #CTS from around Ontario, including Waterloo region.
May @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP soon reverse their diabolical plan to let actual constituents actually die.
Media Advisory: Over 600 Ontario health workers have signed an open letter calling on Ford govt to reverse their deadly decision to close supervised consumption services. Health workers will be at Queen’s Park today at 9:30am speaking to our concerns. #onpoli
Media Advisory: Over 600 Ontario health workers have signed an open letter calling on Ford govt to reverse their deadly decision to close supervised consumption services. Health workers will be at Queen’s Park today at 9:30am speaking to our concerns. #onpoli
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MEDIA ADVISORY: @Glia_Intl and @HA4Palestine with @martinezdefence will be holding a press conference tomorrow at 10:30am at Queen’s Park in Toronto in response to Israel’s banning on Canadian and American medical teams into Gaza. #cdnpoli
Happening today at noon! Come join us and show your support for love saving supervised consumption services! #saveoursites #onpoli
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Involuntary treatment is not appropriate intervention. Calling it "compassionate" and a "lifeline" runs counter to the evidence. Marketing over medicine.
Compassionate intervention is the lifeline Canada’s addiction crisis needs ipolitics.ca/opinions/compas… via @ipoliticsca
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🚨URGENT HELP NEEDED: Help keep supervised consumption sites open and save lives. #SayYesToSCS
HOW?
✅Print, sign & circulate our petition for continued operation of #SCS sites & associated #HarmReduction programs: RNAO.ca/news/sign-and-share-…
@LhamoDolkar2023 @DorisGrinspun
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I've been thinking a lot about the act of recording. For over a year, I've saved images and videos of death & destruction in Gaza — a choice I make to witness & remember a story few are ready to tell properly, let alone believe.
Here I am in @TorontoStar
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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I’ve been scared to speak up more about Gaza. I feel unburdened to share I’ve been targeted & disparaged, as a Black woman physician, by nefarious forces within medicine, because of my pro-humanity stance, but NO MORE. I CANNOT be more scared than Palestinians in this moment.
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Are you worried about the Ford government’s announcement to shut down life saving harm reduction services?
Come join us:
🏛️ Queen’s Park, south lawn in front of the steps
📅 Monday, October 21
⏰ 12 PM
We cannot afford to lose any more lives to this crisis.
#onpoli
