Swine Flu Watch: Medical professionals lobby for more detailed pandemic plan
MDs, nurses pressing for more specific pandemic plan
Canada’s doctors and nurses pressed MPs to help fill the gaps in the national pandemic plan Monday, urging them to ask the government for more consistent communication. They also warned they do not yet feel prepared for a second wave of the H1N1 pandemic.
Representatives from three doctors’ and nurses’ professional organizations, along with the Canadian Medical Association, appeared before the House of Commons health committee and did not hold back in expressing their concerns.
…
“We urge you to protect health-care workers and make SARS lessons national lessons. If the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) won’t do it, nurses will.”
Full Article: here.
