Within each of the provinces, there are a lot of communications and meetings that are happening among these various hospitals to discuss PPE, ventilators and how best to deal with some of the patients who have come through the hospital. That's done at the provincial level, and it's very similar to the other provinces: They do the same and then they usually report their findings to the government, to their ministry of health.
Where I think there was a lack or where there was a gap, it was at the federal and provincial level, where sometimes I felt that the federal government did not have the appropriate information to actually assess and then follow that by making a decision.
I think within the province, within the regions at least, those members of our organization were in constant conversation with their neighbours to discuss issues, practice and lack of ventilators, and see where they could actually get some PPE and ventilators. That conversation was also done on a frequent basis at the provincial level, I know that for a fact. Sometimes even some of our major hospitals would have conversations at the international level only to be able to have access to additional PPE and ventilators. That is done at the provincial level.
I think we need to strengthen the coordination and the information from the provinces to the federal government, and the federal government to the provinces. That's what I would suggest.