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Tuesday, May 27, 2003In the interview, Dr. Hoey argued Canada is suffering from a "real lack of sophisticated health leadership nationally." Senior bureaucrats in the federal health department are "not particularly strong in dealing with critical issues of public health" and few have any formal training in medicine, he said. ..Two weeks after the first case of SARS was diagnosed in Canada, some SARS patients were still not being treated in isolation, the editorial notes. That lapse may have contributed "to the widespread outbreak in Toronto, particularly among health care professionals." While health is a provincial responsibility, Dr. Hoey said it makes far more sense to have one national strategy to combat new viral and bacterial infections and other "environmental threats" to human health rather than rely on a hodgepodge of "10 or 12" different provincial and territorial strategies. Surprisingly, the land of socialized medicine doesn't have a central public health agency, but they want one. UPDATE: A Canadian reader notes that Canada’s health system is province based rather than nationally based: In Canada health is a provincial responsibility. Thus there are 10 different jurisdictions across the country. The federal government tries to control provincial governments on health care by giving, or taking away, money. Moving an elderly family member from one province to another, as I have just done, is like moving them to another country. Sounds similar to the way our Medicaid system works. posted by Sydney on 5/27/2003 07:57:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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