Bill C-277- proposed legislation re brain injury care

Living with traumatic brain injury: Proposed legislation supports nationwide strategy for care

Jamil Muradov is a PhD trainee in the Blood Brain Barrier (Friedman) Lab and a Dal Open Thinker program participant. Recently he worked with Michelle McDonald, Executive Director of Brain Injury Canada, who co-authored Bill C-277. As a result he has published a short article in the Conversation Canada.  

Bill C-277 would direct the minister of health — in consultation with representatives of the provincial governments responsible for health, Indigenous groups and relevant stakeholders (including individuals and families living with the effects of brain injury) — to develop a national strategy to support and improve brain injury awareness, prevention and treatment as well as the rehabilitation and recovery of individuals living with brain injury.

At the bill’s second reading on June 12, the vote in the House of Commons passed with unanimous support.

You can read the article at https://theconversation.com