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They’re closing down Dr. Jack Newman’s Breastfeeding Clinic! Please sign the petition!

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North York General Hospital, one of Toronto’s largest health facilities, is closing its breastfeeding clinic. For years, the clinic has been run by Canada’s pre-eminent breastfeeding expert, Dr. Jack Newman, with Dr. Glen Berall and Toronto Lactation Consultant Edith Kernerman. This clinic is very important because in addition to the dozens of breastfeeding mothers it helps every week, it also hosts many volunteers and observers, such as medical students, doctors, and aspiring lactation consultants. In this way, the clinic has helped to spread proper breastfeeding practices through not only North York, but the wider medical community as well.

The administration at the hospital says it has decided to eliminate the clinic because space is at a premium and they cannot afford to house any program that does not directly involve hospital staff. Unfortunately, it is difficult to see how this decision will not have an adverse effect on the health of the mothers and infants in the Greater Toronto Area, and thus violate the mandate of this public health facility. The closure is all the more distressing because there are now rumours that similar clinics around the Toronto area will also be shut down.

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