The authorities responsible for investigating the spread of infection and inspecting the clinics — TPH and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, respectively — kept the outbreaks secret.
NDP health critic France Gélinas said public awareness of the first outbreak might have prevented the next two.
“It has gone beyond appalling that the same mistakes are being repeated and are not being reported,” she said.
She is calling on the province to remove the CPSO as regulator of such clinics — known as “out-of-hospital premises” — charging that the outbreaks show the organization is failing in its duties to uphold quality of care and to be transparent, and is placing patients at risk.