• The Canadian Press - Olympics 2022

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    NAT043 – (HEALTH-Climate-Hospital-Emergency) OTTAWA. x–12s. Experts in health care and climate adaptation are calling on Canada to disaster proof its hospitals, as an increasing number of extreme weather events threaten the country’s health systems. Ryan Ness, director of adaptation research at the Canadian Climate Institute, says disasters that bring people to the emergency room — like fires, floods, heat waves and other extreme weather — also strike the hospitals themselves. He says every heal

  • The Canadian Press - Olympics 2022

    Audio clip NAT042

    NAT042 – (HEALTH-Climate-Hospital-Emergency) OTTAWA. x–14s. The Canadian Climate Institute’s director of adaptation research Ryan Ness says every health authority in Canada should be thinking about protecting the country’s hospitals from fires, floods, extreme heat, and other climate related disasters. There have been several examples of hospitals having to shut down in the face of natural disasters these past several years. While retrofitting hospitals to withstand disasters is expensive, Ness

  • USA TODAY

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