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Noni MacDonald and Interim Federal Health Program

Interim Federal Health Program: Dr. Noni MacDonald remembers a young woman who fled the Middle East believing that, here in Canada, she would find a better life, according to The Chronicle Herald. Ottawa made cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program three years ago, meaning only government-assisted refugees qualify for public coverage of medication, vision and dental care and Instead, the girl ended up in the emergency room after a suicide attempt. Her parents could not pay for the trips to a family doctor or psychiatrist, the IWK Health Centre physician says, and the girls major clinical depression went untreated. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.