2009-04-06
12:36:41
The Northwestern Health Unit is changing the way how it responses to medical and public health emergency situations.
Traditionally, the Chief Medical Officer of Health has also been on call year round. Doctor James Arthurs says the workload will now be spread among other senior managers.
"The change was made to spread that responsibility around," says Arthurs, "and begin communication between all of us who are cross-trained and able to do things in vacation or family-issue absents because one person can't do it all."
Arthurs says they are also looking at improvements in other areas such as environmental protocols, and after-hours incidents.
