Mr. Speaker, in 2021, as COVID-19 cases surged in Kingston, Dr. Elaine Ma coordinated innovative drive-through vaccine clinics that were crucial for our community's health at a time of great uncertainty. Collaborating with health care professionals, Queen's University students, the public health unit and volunteers, Dr. Ma was widely recognized for her heroic efforts in vaccinating thousands of people throughout the Kingston region.
Now, years later, OHIP is demanding that Dr. Ma repay billed costs based on technicalities related to the distribution of those vaccines. OHIP has seemingly forgotten the dire and urgent circumstances of the pandemic that required innovative solutions from health care professionals like Dr. Ma.
Today, I am calling on Premier Doug Ford, his Minister of Health and OHIP to drop this nonsense claim against Dr. Ma and start acknowledging and celebrating the heroic efforts of our health care providers during and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.