The service will allow patients to contact central staff who will connect them with health-care providers prepared to handle requests for a medically assisted death. Health Minister Eric Hoskins says a “care co-ordination service” for medically assisted death will be up and running as early as May. Ontario is setting up a new service for people seeking medically assisted death that will allow them to reach out for help directly, bypassing health-care providers who object to assisted suicide on conscience grounds. If they chose medical assistance in dying, they would be able to follow that through to completion.”The new service will come approximately a year after medically assisted dying was made legal in Canada. The advocacy group Dying with Dignity has been tracking cases where patients have faced road blocks to accessing assisted death.

Source: thestar April 02, 2017 15:00 UTC