While new medical breakthroughs offer unprecedented protection, fragmented provincial policies and surveillance gaps leave Canada’s most vulnerable infants and seniors at risk.
It’s important for pharmacy professionals to understand the religious significance and fast-ing practices of Ramadhan and to be able to help patients manage medication and other health concerns.
At our walk-in clinic, I recently was asked to see a patient with a ‘sore foot.’ The patient had not complained, but his family had noticed a lesion on the sole of his foot and insisted that he seek medical advice.