CJMAS Announces Fundraising Walk in Conjunction with Vancouver Sun Run Event Surrey, BC March 10, 2024 – Canadian Jamaican Medical Assistance Society (CJMAS), a prominent charity dedicated to promoting health and education initiatives in Jamaica, is excited to announce its virtual participation in the upcoming Vancouver Sun Run via its annual special fundraising walk on
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CJMAS Announces Fundraising Walk in Conjunction with Vancouver Sun Run Event Surrey
on March 30th, 2024
Short on Family Doctors? Nurse Practitioners Can Help
on November 29th, 2023
Alberta plan to empower nurse practitioners is an innovative approach to healthcare reform Nearly one in eight Albertans don’t have access to a family doctor. That makes for roughly 600,000 of our fellow citizens who don’t have a physician regularly following up on their health and tracking its evolution. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Fixing Canada’s Family Doctor Crisis
on November 8th, 2023
Canada is facing a severe family doctor shortage. Here is how we can fix it In our neighbourhood, there are many “everyone deserves a family doctor” signs. The sentiment isn’t surprising, but it’s based on the fantasy that putting up a sign will somehow create more doctors. The reality is that Canada faces
Zimbabwe Health Finance Model Unsustainable: Top Research Economist
on November 8th, 2023
Zimbabwe’s current health financing model remains highly unsustainable as it relies heavily on external financing and out-of-pocket financing, says Dr Prosper Chitambara, senior research economist and policy advisor and currently a member of the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ.) The intersection of public underinvestment – in history and in the here-and-now
Assisted Suicide Expansion for Mentally ill Premature
on October 31st, 2023
82 percent of Canadians demand mental health reform before expanding assisted suicide Fix mental healthcare first. That’s a key takeaway from new poll results, which found that 82 percent of Canadians agree improving access to mental health care should happen before expanding “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) to those with mental illness as their sole
Safe Supply Programs Creating a Surge in New Opioid Users
on October 23rd, 2023
Federal government faces pressure to rethink its safe supply opioid policies How many doctors does it take to change a government policy killing young Canadians? Seventeen? Maybe. That’s the number of medical addictions specialists who drafted an enlightening open letter to the federal government to tell them that the current safe/safer supply programs for opioid
Rents Are Out of Control, But let’s Not Blame ‘The Market’ For Our Woes
on February 27th, 2023
Because rent increases are well above wages, entire cities are becoming unaffordable for working familie A new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows that rents are skyrocketing in many, if not most, Canadian cities. No surprise there. But this year’s annual report also documents, for the first time, rent increases in
Private Health Insurance Would Ease Canadians’ Suffering
on January 30th, 2023
Provinces should allow other health care options, like duplicate insurance, so patients can access the care they need more quickly Over 660,000 Canadians are waiting for surgery at the moment, with many waiting long months and even years. For these people, each day stuck on a waiting list is 24 more hours of sore knees,
Canadian Health Care at A Crossroads
on August 1st, 2022
It’s time to stop talking about money and start talking about changing health care It has been a revealing week for Canadian health care and what we have witnessed is not good. In Fredericton, NB, a senior passed away while waiting for care at a hospital emergency department. A witness noted that the man was
Committee Made the Right Call to Delay MAiD Expansion
The debate over medically assisted suicide continues because of safety concerns for the mentally ill