FREDERICTON | “Actuarial expertise and methods can help identify areas to lower healthcare costs,” says Jacques Lafrance, president of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.
TORONTO | The HealthAchieve conference and trade show has announced its lineup of speakers this year will include Colonel Chris Hadfield, Hélène Campbell and Sir Ken Robinson.
A few months ago, the hospital staff of Lac-Mégantic took part in an exercise code orange: an simulation involving a school bus accident. But overnight on July 6, the code orange was not a sham.
Two medical clinics located in downtown Lac-Mégantic were miraculously spared by the monster fire that reduced many buildings to ashes after the deadly train explosion on July 8; however, they remain inaccessible because they are in the disaster area.
Lac-Mégantic, Quebec | “The sky was orange. It was like in a movie—a ball of fire, big explosions, flames, smoke and lots of people gathered in the street, in pyjamas.”
