The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario is joining the fight to have new safe consumption and treatment sites funded by the province.
Windsor's SafePoint closed at the end of 2023 because the province paused all new funding approvals pending a safety review.
The review was launched in October and provincial officials say results should be released "soon."
"We cannot continue to have people dying alone in our streets simply to wait for a report," said RNAO CEO Doris Grinspun.
Other communities like Sudbury and Timmins are also waiting for approvals to continue or start operations of safe consumption sites.
"There is nothing to wait about and we are urgently asking Premier Ford, in fact I sent him a text over the weekend, to basically approve the funding," said Grinspun.
The RNAO has launched a petition and is asking it members and people in the community to support their call to fund the supervised consumption sites immediately.
