Sorry; it's going to be me, and I'm going to split with Dr. Ellis.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all the witnesses for being here.
We heard from Health Canada that they actually were aware of this issue in the spring. In their mind, it only really became an issue when it was publicized in August, and basically only after we started bringing it up in question period did we actually see any movement from Health Canada to publicly address this issue.
I know as a parent that the worst thing in the world is having a sick kid. No one wants to bring a sick child to the emergency room just because they have a fever, yet I'm seeing countless reports of that happening because there is no other option, especially in many of our rural and isolated communities that don't have 24-hour compounding pharmacies and the families don't have the capacity of having this medication on hand.
Ms. Gruenwoldt, can you describe how many families are presenting simply with a fever at some of your hospitals just to get Tylenol or Advil and then going home?