Health committee  The first thing is that right now there is talk about certain medications that may or may not work with COVID-19. I know that the evidence is preliminary, but many people who have drug plans or are able to afford it have gone out and stockpiled those medications. Many of those mo

Health committee  You're right that the medications that I'm referring to are propofol and Midazolam. There's also fentanyl. What's happening is that people who are presenting with COVID-19 and have significant respiratory distress, when we've had to sedate them and put them on ventilators, many o

Health committee  I wouldn't disagree with that, but what I'm trying to say is that there are field hospitals that are now being set up at our peer hospitals in Toronto, and we're also looking at a bigger field hospital plan. However, I think it is a shame if a first world country that most of the

Health committee  I'll answer it in two parts. Surge capacity is not a new problem in Canada, or in Ontario, or certainly in our region here in the Central West LHIN. This is being highlighted right now because of the COVID crisis, but every year during the flu season, hospitals across Canada and

Health committee  I'll answer your question in two ways. One is that everything depends on the configuration of the emergency department and the emergency department's isolation capacity. What that means is that each hospital with an emergency department has different types of rooms. We have rooms

Health committee  Do you want me to go first?

Health committee  I can tell you that we have a large number of international medical graduates who reside in Canada. A lot of them are Canadians who have gone to international medical schools. They are not people coming from other countries with education from there. They are people who have grow

Health committee  I can tell you what we do at Osler. We are a larger organization with more staff and more bandwidth. We have a pandemic plan that our emergency preparedness committee is in charge of, and it is reviewed on an annual basis. The pandemic plan includes not only the work that needs

Health committee  The first thing is that there has been great collaboration between the federal government and provincial governments on some of the things they have put in place right now. The income stability programs for our staff and for all the workers in Canada and things along those lines

Health committee  Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for the invitation to address the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health today. My name is Dr. Naveed Mohammad, and I'm the executive vice-president of quality, medical and academic affairs at William Osler Health System, or “O