![]() ![]() We also work closely with partners to support harm reduction services offered by other organizations.” “At this time, Ottawa Public Health continues to provide harm reduction services including a supervised consumption site. “We know that there is some benefit to them because we’ve seen the outcomes.”īenjamin Leikin, manager of the community health and wellness branch with Ottawa Public Health, said in an email Friday that current supervised consumption services in Ottawa will remain open. ![]() “I don’t see that as being one of the options, it’s not what we’re looking at,” Tibollo said. Tibollo said the province is not looking at shutting down any of Ontario’s 17 supervised consumption and treatment sites. Huebner-Makurat’s death sparked outrage and a debate over supervised consumption sites. Police have laid charges against several people in the death of Karolina Huebner-Makurat, including accessory after the fact and obstructing justice counts laid against a woman who worked at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. The province launched a “critical incident review” in the summer after a 44-year-old mother of two was killed by a stray bullet near a consumption site in Toronto’s east end following a physical altercation between three men. “And I think we’re doing this in the appropriate way, which is to study it and to have experts come back and make recommendations to us that we will implement.” ![]() National Capital Region's Top Employers. ![]()
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