Readiness is built, not assumed: preparing our health system for crisis

When we expand burn care, critical care capacity, or national co-ordination, we are also better equipped to respond to industrial or construction accidents, natural disasters, and future pandemics.
Our networks of trauma and burn specialists already collaborate effectively, but we must ask how we can be more intentional in strengthening that capacity, writes Dr. Andy Smith.

In the early 1940s, a determined group of Toronto women rallied for something Canada urgently needed: proper hospital care for returning soldiers. Through public advocacy and persistence, they helped establish Sunnybrook Military Hospital in 1943.

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