Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 Sep, 2017 10:46 AM
The Ontario government has introduced a new bill it says will improve transparency in the province's health care system. The wide-ranging changes would amend 10 existing pieces of legislation if passed. Here are the key changes:
Mandatory disclosure of any payments pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers make to health care professionals.
Granting paramedics the ability to transport patients to non-hospital settings, like a mental health facility, following a 911 call.
New enforcement tools that would include higher fines and change the safety inspection program for the province's long-term care homes.
Clear regulations to ease public health enforcement of recreational water facilities like splash pads and wading pools and personal service settings like barber shops, tattoo parlours and nail salons.
A new licensing regime for community health facilities which operate medical radiation devices like X-rays, CT scanners and ultrasound machines.
New regulations for diagnostic medical sonographers who operate ultrasound machines.
Kelly Regan, the minister responsible for the status of women, said Friday the province was "supporting more choice for women" by making Mifegymiso available by prescription starting in November.
MONTREAL — An advertisement for the city's ballet company that includes a woman with blood running down her legs and a nail jutting out of her foot is not acceptable within the public transportation system, Montreal's transit authority said Friday.
TORONTO — With temperatures expected to top 30 Celsius this weekend and humidex values forecast to be pushing 40 degrees, Toronto's ombudsman is calling on the city's landlords to "turn off the heat."
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has personally apologized to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna for a Tory MP's remark referring to her as "climate Barbie."
