SARS

Ontario's public health system slammed by interim report on SARS crisis

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 11th, 2004

Only the "heroic" efforts of Ontario's front-line health workers kept last year's deadly SARS outbreak from exacting a far heavier toll, says a report on the crisis released April 20, 2004, that delivers a scathing indictment of the province's public health system.

Justice Archie Campbell, appointed last year to examine the province's handling of the outbreak that killed 44 people and sickened hundreds more, is unequivocal in his assessment of a public health system that utterly failed the people of Canada's most populous province.

"Ontario was fortunate that SARS was ultimately contained without widespread community transmission or further hospital...

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