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Health committee What I alluded to earlier is that testing is really the key piece here. Until a vaccine becomes available and we can inoculate the population to help resist the infection from being developed, we really need to be able to identify very quickly and accurately who has had it, who t
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee If I can jump in on this, I think one thing this committee needs to know is that, as we start to loosen up the criteria and start to go into elective surgeries, we've got to be prepared, because COVID is not going anywhere. Let's not fool anybody: We need to be prepared with test
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee There are two parts to that question. The first is whether I am aware of any other shortages. Drug shortages are very common within the country. Health Canada has a website called drugshortagescanada.ca, where all the up-to-date information is applied. These are commonplace. Wh
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee It's actually more toward her PPE question. I think COVID-19 has created a lot of complexity in health care and the situation you described is very tragic, obviously. The one thing to keep in mind is that with PPE is that there's donning of it, putting it on, and doffing it, and
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee Mr. Chair, may I make one comment?
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee I'll just add to that. I've done a number of telehealth clinics and phone clinics with my patients. The respiratory patient is like any one of us. There's a lot of anxiety about what they should and shouldn't do and how they are going to manage the activities of life like going f
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee Currently, the evidence is building in regards to what the long-term effects are going to be. There's going to be a multi-tiered response or an expectation of that. If they have had mild symptoms, probably at the end of the day, probably not a lot of damage. But there's a potenti
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee That's a great question. I give a lecture to medical students on this every year. If you have an hour, I can take you through all of it. The reality is that there is the acute problem and a chronic problem. The infection itself results in massive inflammation within the lungs, a
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee Yes, one hundred percent. In the pulmonary-lung world, the two primary conditions are asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD. For both of those diseases we use a medicine called, as a broad term, an inhaled corticosteroid. It is a very minute dose of steroid intr
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee I'm going to add to that for just two seconds, Mr. Chair. I would echo those comments. In Alberta we've been using telemedicine for a long time for rural and remote communities, and it's worked very effectively. To see it gravitate into the more urban centres has been a real po
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani
Health committee Thank you, Terry. Thank you to the Standing Committee on Health for the opportunity to appear today. I join you today to represent the partnership between the Canadian Lung Association and the Canadian Thoracic Society. The Canadian Thoracic Society, or CTS, is Canada's nationa
May 6th, 2020Committee meeting
Dr. Mohit Bhutani