Hospital staff at the North Bay Regional Health Centre are holding a solidarity day to keep beds with the residential addictions program from closing.

Last month CUPE warned funding cuts are impacting the program and it’s 29 inpatient beds.

Front-line staff will be wearing visible black and yellow stickers today that say ‘Save North Bay addiction services.’

They’re doing so in support of patients in treatment and the nurses and therapists who provide services.

The province has said funding is being reinvested into a Transitional Housing and Crisis Stabilization Centre with six beds.

(File photo by station staff)

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