Quebec ‘closely monitored’ tuberculosis in Nunvik ‘, minister says, doctors say for more resources

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The Health Minister of Quebec says that the number of tuberculosis cases in the province’s public healthcare Nunvik is “closely monitoring”, calling for a public health emergency in view of a letter from the mayors of 14 Inute communities in the region.

“We take this situation very seriously,” the office of Health Minister Christian Dubey told CBC News. “We will continue to follow the recommendations of public health experts on this subject.”

Public health experts talking with CBC News said that they are facing lack of resources and require help to adequately address the increasing number of tuberculosis cases in the area. The health department of Quebec told the CBC that till 7 June, 56 cases of tuberculosis reported in Nunvik have been reported so far this year – even more than 40 cases, the mayors of the area are referred to in their letter.

There is currently an outbreak of tuberculosis in six nunvik communities, and the region is on track to set a serious record for a third year in a row on the number of cases in the region, Yasan Tacholkov said, clinical leadership on infectious diseases for nunvik regional health and social services.

“We have rates that are comparable to the most (tuberculosis) countries. If you take some communities into separation, those rates are comparable to the most serious settings in countries that have extremely minimal health resources,” he said.

He said that tuberculosis, while treating, kills most infected patients within a few years if left untreated. People who are treated are sometimes abandoned with lifelong problems such as taking a nap on their lungs.

If nothing changes, he expects the number of cases in Nunvik to keep growing.

“When I hear people making calls for a public health emergency, I hear a cry for help – and an observation that the health system is not reaching the expectation of what the population wants to see,” Tokolkov said.

In a separate statement for CBC News, Minister de La Sant at Des Services Socials Du Cubek said he has collected teams that determines the best way to determine the best way. Request mayor made on Monday,

Neither the minister nor the department did in his statements to declare public health emergency. The department has written that before acting “the time to analyze the situation” is taking.

The department said, “We know that the increase in tuberculosis cases already connects the face of many challenges (nunvik) about quality, continuous and safe care and access to services,” the department said.

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Faiz Ahmed Khan, a respiratoryist at McGill University Health Center, who also works in health centers in Nunvik communities of Puunnituk and Kujjuak, said that there is a “chronic deficiency” of medical resources in Nunvik in general – an issue that affects the response of Nubruculosis.

“I think the mayors have demanded a very valid demand,” he said, in relation to a public health emergency. Such an announcement will provide the ability to request health centers to the resources they need.

Khan said that lack of resources means that sometimes the whole families just have to go out to investigate for the disease. In some communities, people also have to fly just to get X-rays to diagnose. All that treatment is delayed.

“I am sad that I am very worried that (tuberculosis) can cause more deaths on the horizon – which is completely unacceptable in Quebec in 2025,” he said.

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