- by Hub staff
Dr. Rochagne Kilian, who worked at the Owen Sound hospital until her resignation in August, is one of two Ontario physicians whose practice was recently restricted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).
Specifically, the thirteen point restrictions concerned giving medical exemptions for Covid-19 vaccinations, masks and testing.
We now know of at least one local individual who received such an exemption through a website that attracted the attention of the CPSO. The cost was $600, with an option for a laminated wallet card for an additional $200. We do not know how much of that was received by the physician involved.
Dr. Kilian's recent project on a British-based crowd-funding website has attracted 192 supporters to raise money to “establish an Integrative Lifestyle Medical Facility for disenfranchised patients in Grey County”.
As of this writing, the supporters – some named, many anonymous - had contributed $23,576. The fund-raising goal is $2 million in the form of $100 (or more) interest-free loans which Dr. Kilian pledges "to repay after 10 years”.
According to the information on the page, money is needed by the end of November, in order to open the facility January 1, 2022.
The administrators of the crowd-funding page, who receive 3% of all donations to provide their service, state that this particular project “will receive all pledges made by 12th November 2021 at 6:18pm Greenwich Mean Time".
The fund-raising pitch goes on to say “Every last dollar will be applied to the founding of this facility, managing and running the facility, as well as towards those that are in dire need of medical assistance.” The facility, it says, will provide “basic private health care” for Ontarians who have been left “marginalized”, and it will “employ medical professionals who have lost their jobs to the same tyrannical measures”.
There is no mention of alternate plans for the donations/loans should Dr. Kilian fall short of her fund-raising goal.
Dr. Kilian, who received her initial medical degree in South Africa, has also worked as a physician in Williams Lake, British Columbia. Online inquiries were made earlier this year about job opportunities in the Cayman Islands for "a Family Physician trained in South Africa " and her husband "a SA-trained lawyer" from a Facebook account with Rochagne Kilian's name and photograph.
photo: Dr Kilian speaking at a rally organized by Grey Bruce Freedom Fighters
