Health-care sector needs to reduce environmental harm as it heals

Environmental pollution caused by the health sector can lead to a chain reaction of public health consequences.

Across the health sector, we must all do more and increase the level of urgency to become greener and fight climate change, writes Kendra Frey, vice-president of Materials Management for HealthPRO Canada.Photograph by gratuit, distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Opinion

BY KENDRA FREY

December 11, 2023

Canada is fortunate to have one of the most highly regarded healthcare systems in the world when it comes to access to patient care, but it also has a lesser-known dark side.

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