Is Alberta ready for a pandemic?
Author: alla | Date: April 29, 2009 | Please Comment!During Question Period at the Legislature on Tuesday, David asked some hard questions about the province’s readiness to handle an influenza pandemic given current health care conditions. Here are some links to news articles dealing with the issue.
Province confirms two swine flu cases
By Keith Gerein and Trish Audette, The Edmonton Journal, April 29, 2009
By KERRY DIOTTE, The Edmonton Sun, April 29, 2009
11:21 am on May 8th, 2009
Dr. Swann: What is Alberta Health Services doing to protect clients using their services. My understanding is there is no client screening conducted for H1N1 and contracted health care agencies are not being permitted to screen clients prior to providing service. This obviously puts health care workers at risk as well as clients. The WHO is at pandemic planning stage 5 which calls for increased surveillance world wide. Does AHS think they have more knowledge on this virus than the WHO? Becasue this is a novel virus and no one has immunity, the health of already compromised individuals using AHS service is at even greater risk.