Provincial Governments and Federal Government

federal government: In June, 2012, the Canadian government cut funding to refugee health care with the claim that it would protect our immigration system from abuse. The following two years have seen street demonstrations, legal challenges and disagreements between the federal and provincial governments over the validity of these cuts, according to Globe and Mail. In the six months following the cuts, 95 per cent of refugee claimant bills sent to the federal government were not paid. That means that 95 per cent of children presenting with valid health papers issued from the federal government were left without any emergency medical coverage. Make no mistake, these children were sick, with 12 per cent requiring admission. They were admitted, not with obscure or foreign diagnoses, but with life-threatening conditions that affect children everywhere appendicitis, fractures, and seizures were among the diagnoses reported. The experience of a parent with no coverage and no money whose child is having a seizure in bed is something no research can properly capture and Dr. Alexander Caudarella @acaudarella is a resident physician in family medicine at the University of Toronto; Dr. Andrea Evans @ablairEvans is a resident physician in pediatrics at the University of Toronto. Absent from the governments briefings and speeches has been any discussion of the impact these cuts would have on the most vulnerable of vulnerable populations children. Our research team has analyzed data from the countrys largest pediatric emergency room The Hospital for Sick Children and produced surprising results published in the international open source medical journal ONE. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.