Canada’s high physician is urging the federal authorities to rework its public well being system so the nation is healthier outfitted to deal with future and current well being threats.
Chief public well being officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up name on the necessity for “public well being renewal” in Canada.
A part of that includes bettering Canada’s public well being information assortment and surveillance.
She says gaps in Canada’s potential to gather information concerning the pandemic hindered the nation’s response.
She additionally warned the federal government towards scaling again public well being funding as soon as the emergency has handed, as authorities’s usually do, which might go away Canada at a drawback on the onset of the subsequent disaster.
The suggestions are a part of Tam’s annual report, which was tabled within the Home of Commons right now by Well being Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.
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