Severe pandemic would bring health system to knees, CMA head says
Canada • October 2010 • Views: 572
Canada’s health-care system would have been “brought to its knees” if the H1N1 pandemic had turned out to be more severe, the head of the Canadian Medical Association said Friday.
Appearing before a Senate committee studying pandemic preparedness, Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull said last year’s experience with the H1N1 flu pandemic was fraught with communication problems, and he warned — again — that the health-care system lacks the ability to handle public health emergencies on a large scale.