TORONTO — 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. Health Minister Eric Hoskins says a “care co-ordination service” for medically assisted death will be up and running as early as May. 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. 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: National Post April 02, 2017 17:48 UTC