Government-provided, one-room houses with no bathrooms, or cramped shacks cobbled together from construction debris, provided ideal conditions for the disease to spread.I thought this was a really interesting article because I thought that tuberculosis was pretty much gone in Canada. At least, I know I've never met anyone or have heard of anyone having it. I couldn't believe that TB is an issue in Nunavut because it seems like it'd be very preventable and curable.
"We are a rich, developed nation that has the resources to solve the problem in Nunavut if we choose to employ them," says Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, a respirologist at Toronto Western Hospital. "The fact that we have failed to do so, not just once but over a century, should be an embarrassment to every Canadian."
I felt that the quote above from Dr. Matthew Stanbrook is a good one. It really speaks out to how as a country we've failed to do a lot of things and this is one of them.
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