Minna Mettinen- Kekalainen is physically disabled (she has ALS) and is autistic. She lives in Sudbury, Canada. Because of her disabilities, she cannot change her adult incontinence pants, needs help to be fed and take medication through a tube in her stomach and needs help with a lot of other basic stuff. She is being denied the help she needs because she complained that some nurses weren’t doing their job properly. She will die if she doesn’t get the help she needs. There is a newspaper article about what is happening here. You can read more blog posts about her plight here, here, hereand here.
Please register your disgust with the individuals listed below. Please pray for Minna. And if there’s any more you can do for Minna, please do it.
Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci
Constituency Office email: rbartolucci.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services email: rick.bartolucci@ontario.ca
Minister of Health & Long-Term Care David Caplan: ccu.moh@ontario.ca
North East Community Care Access Centre (the centre that is refusing care to Minna)
Head Office/Sudbury Branch
1760 Regent Street
SudburyONP3E 3Z8
(705) 522-3461 or 1 (800) 461-2919 (Sudbury)
Maison Vale Inco Hospice (the place Minna hopes to gain admittance to)
(705) 674-9252
1028 South Bay Rd.Sudbury, ONP3E 6J7
Website: http://www.maisonsudburyhospice.org/
Resident Care Coordinator Elaine Klym: elaine@maisonsudburyhospice.org
Executive Director is Léo Therrien
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