Where are the tweets? The online postings? The news releases?
After a hepatitis C outbreak at three Toronto colonoscopy clinics infected 11 people since 2011, you’d think the health of patients would be the top priority for the government — as well as for the organizations charged with acting on infectious disease control and inspecting clinics.
And you’d think their first line of defence would be to warn the public – and other clinics – about the outbreaks, while they acted to ensure there wouldn’t be further infections.
But silence and secrecy over a 21-month period when others were becoming infected was — and is — the order of the day.