Hospital offers better healthcare for foreigners moving to Canada
July 01 2010 by Liam Clifford
Jason Kenney - Immigration minister
The Canadian immigration department has announced it is investing further in providing services for newcomers who have recently emigrated to Canada – this time in the form of targeted healthcare.
Credit Valley
Hospital in Ontario has received funding to increase services for newcomers. MP
Bob Dechert, speaking on behalf of Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney,
stated, “The settlement worker program at Credit Valley Hospital will help
newcomers to Canada overcome the challenges they often face in accessing the
health care system.”
He continued, “This investment demonstrates the
government’s commitment to helping newcomers.”
Much of the CA$426,000 in
funding will be spent on hiring more multi-lingual staff, who will work as
settlement workers and will be there to offer support to foreign patients and
their families. The staff will help the hospital’s nurses and doctors to gain a
greater understanding of cultural norms and customs, which will help them to
treat patients, who have just moved to Canada, more sensitively.
The
investment is part of the wider Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement, which has
seen the government triple spending on services for newcomers living in the
region. Some CA$1.25 billion has been spent on the area's settlement services
since 2005-2006.
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