Philip Berger: Canadian Doctors For Refugee Care

Family And Community Medicine Dept: We are stubborn. We re upset and we are professionals. The government is hurting our patients. We will not stop, ever, and we will not forget, Dr. Philip Berger, chief of family and community medicine at St. Michael s Hospital in Toronto told a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, according to The Star. The group has begun to distribute a detailed case-reporting survey, which they call the Refugee Health Outcome Monitoring Evaluation System, or Refugee HOMES, to physicians and health-care workers nationwide and oTTAWA Canadian doctors are ready to make noise about the consequences of cuts to a federal program that will restrict health coverage for refugee claimants. A group of grassroots physicians calling itself Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care is looking to study and publicize any negative impacts of upcoming changes to the Interim Federal Health program , which provides temporary costs of medical coverage to refugee claimants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.