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I don't understand why prevention is not a priority. Free mobile vaccination clinic going to schools, workplaces, retirement community. Health professionals (PT, nurses, pharmacists) checking in by phone with patients at risk of hospitalization. More accessible and cheaper MRI/CTs for common high risk groups, without the need of multiple referrals.
Those are cost effective measures that can keep many patients out of hospitalization, especially preventable ones.
I've heard of larger workplaces having in-house vaccination clinics, but I think it's only if the employer asks. Maybe a little more outreach would help there.
We had vaccination clinics at the school when I was a student, for required immunizations like measles, polio, and so on. No reason (except personnel and funding shortages) why they couldn't do that for seasonal vaccines like flu and COVID.
I remember as a kid in the 1960s having a mobile vaccination clinic show up in our small village in SK. They even had a fluoroscope as part of the TB screening program.
I think a lot of it boils down to the provinces being allowed to spend transfer payments however they want to, ie: healthcare/education payments from the feds are not restricted to being used for healthcare/education. Too often you see provincial gov'ts handing out tax credits when they should be increasing taxes instead. Even a 1% increase to provincial sales tax would help ... but politicians are focused on being re-elected vs caring for the needs of everyone in their province.
There's no uptake. Conservatives in both countries have politicized science and vaccine denial, and efforts to force vaccines at they did before to protect the healthcare system were obstructed.
I can get a free flu shot and a free COVID vax at a local pharmacy very close to me; or the dozen others in close proximity. It's a very effective move to put vaccines in the hands of those who want them but not everyone wants them and we need to address why those people who can get vaxed but aren't are still afforded the rest of the perqs of membership in society once they break the social contract.
They can roll a nurse in a van full of vax doses; but if no one shows up because some hypocrite convinced them not to, because it's politically helpful to kill the healthcare system and force in an American system, then it's not effective to roll that van.
Arrest the people trying to dismantle our healthcare system for a mercenary one - so they can get kickbacks and retire to Cabo - and tax the mercenary clinics to hell and close the system so it works again. Even then it'll take yeeeeears to get back righted but with hope and decent archiving we can leave this whole shitfest in a record for the next generation when some orange-faced realtor-scumbag tries the same shit again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The usual slate of viral threats, from influenza to respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, make this time of year particularly challenging for hospitals thanks to the ongoing influx of sick patients.
But pointing a finger at the current issues — sick patients, staff shortages, surgery backlogs, and clogged ERs — doesn't capture the deeper problem plaguing Canadian hospitals.
1 reason wait times are excessive," Dr. Paul Ratana, the medical director for the emergency department at Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital, said at a provincial press conference earlier this week.
Those patients were all essentially "stuck in hospital, with nowhere to go," said study author Aaron Jones, an assistant professor in the department of health research methods, evidence and impact at McMaster University in Hamilton and an adjunct scientist with Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
"We are facing a primary care crisis in this country, and we urgently need to find solutions," wrote Dr. Kathleen Ross, president of the Canadian Medical Association, a national physician advocacy group, in a statement this week.
Last fall, his association of ER doctors met with provincial and territorial health ministers to discuss how they could team up at a national forum this spring to find fixes for the overcrowding in emergency rooms.
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