Interim Federal Health Program: Health Impacts

Basic Health Care Dept: "We are extremely concerned over the health impacts that this will have on the most vulnerable members of our society, many of whom will eventually become Canadian citizens," the letter to Jason Kenney states , according to CBC. Currently, under a long-standing program called the Interim Federal Health Program, the federal government provides basic health care, dental and vision care, medications and medical devices as needed to refugee claimants until they become eligible for coverage under provincial health care and the heads of several of Canada's leading health-care organizations have written a strongly worded letter to the federal immigration minister, urging him to rescind plans to cut health services to refugees and refugee claimants. It is signed by the heads of eight prominent health-care groups: The Canadian Association of Optometrists The Canadian Medical Association The Canadian Nurses Association The Canadian Association of Social Workers The Canadian Dental Association The Canadian Pharmacists Association The College of Family Physicians of Canada The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.