Two long-term care homes in Renfrew County will consider allowing their residents to smoke on the property once again.
Bonnechere Manor in Renfrew and Miramichi Lodge in Pembroke, the two county-run long-term care homes, banned residents from smoking on the home's property in 2010.
"Over the years, residents with varying degrees of mobility impairments have endured hazards associated with all weather conditions and vehicular traffic in order to vacate the property to smoke," said Mike Blackmore, director of long-term care in Renfrew County at a health committee meeting on Feb. 15.
Residents would still be prohibited from smoking indoors. Any smoking done on the homes' properties would have to be done at least nine metres from an entrance. "We have frail individuals that are residents at Bonnechere Manor or Miramichi Lodge and yet they cannot resist that compulsion, and yet we are requiring them to actually vacate the property," said Donohue.
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