Thank you, Mr. Ramsden. Mr. Erasmus.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Is there a danger associated with people not completing their medical treatment, who are not taking all the medicine they are supposed to? The response indicated they are not taking all the medicine at the proper time and through proper timeframes. Is there a danger associated with that?
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Ramsden
Mr. Chairman, to provide more than a fairly basic answer, I would want to call upon some of our medical staff to advise the Member. Clearly, it is a risk whenever there are a pharmaceutical prescribed and where the course of treatment are not pursued. You run the risk of developing drug-resistant strains of the disease. In the area tuberculosis this is a very specific concern and one that clearly has drawn our attention and raise the pressure we put on boards to ensure that it does not remain an issue. Thank you.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Have our medical personnel found there are some drug-resistant strains in the Northwest Territories that are perhaps not responding to the typical medicine we utilize?
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Ramsden
Mr. Chairman, I would have to seek the resources of our department to be able to respond properly to that. I am not able to respond to that. Thank you.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. How soon would we be able to get a response in this area?
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Ramsden
Mr. Chairman, depending on when I am able to consult with our chief medical health officer. I expect it is a matter of information he probably has in his hands. Perhaps, tomorrow is possible. Thank you.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the earlier responses indicated that there are certain situations we have in the north which makes the communications of tuberculosis from one person to another happen a lot easier. Could we get an indication of what these factors are?
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we are getting into an area which requires some medical advice for us through the chief medical health officer. We will try to provide that information at the same time to the honourable Member. Thank you.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not sure if this is the proper area, but there have been indications of core programs in some of the Minister's previous statements and responses to questions in the House. I would like to know if a core program is health and disease surveillance?
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Ramsden
Mr. Chairman, in the core services document, it is quite clear that boards must provide education, screening and treatment for communicable diseases. Tuberculosis is a disease which falls squarely into the communicable diseases area. It is very much a core service. Thank you.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. These core services, are they prioritized by the board or do our departmental staff actually determine what the priority is on these core services and how to deal with them?
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I believe in a previous answer that Mr. Ramsden stated, there is a statement of core services being developed now. It is near its final stage. We have carried on in determining some of the basic services. The boards operated from programs that the medical services branch of Health and Welfare Canada passed on to us when we assumed responsibility for health in 1988. We had committed to providing that information to the Members previously and will continue to do so. Thank you.
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