Interim Federal Health Program IFHP: Pharmaceutical Care

Health Care Coverage Dept: Ottawa announced in April it will strip thousands of refugees of health-care coverage starting in July unless their conditions pose a threat to public health, according to The Star. Currently, all refugees are covered by the Interim Federal Health Program IFHP , which provides basic health coverage, sometimes with supplementary services such as pharmaceutical care, dentistry, vision care and devices such as walkers and wheelchairs, if required and ontario nurses are urging the Harper government to scrap its plans to reduce health care coverage for refugee claimants or face the fact people will die. Ontario s nurses, like health-care professionals from across the country, are gravely concerned that these dangerous changes will threaten the lives and well-being of people who have already experienced trauma and hardship before they arrived in Canada, Doris Grinspun, chief executive officer of Registered Nurses Association of Ontario , said in a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.