Alberta slightly higher than Cdn average in ALL reports per 100K, but still in the pack.
But when you separate Serious Adverse Drug Reaction (Serious ADR) from Medical Device Incident (MDI), the stats get weird.
Alberta reports 3,269 out of Canada's 7,190 Medical Device Incidents. A whopping 45% from ~ 12% of the population.
Per 100K people, Alberta is by far highest in Canada at 67, nearly 4x the national rate.
These stats are since 16 Dec 2019, so are heavily affected by pandemic.
This sort of makes sense, because Alberta has been buying a lot of substandard Medical Devices from MHCare Medical since March 2020, especially the notorious Vanch masks.
(My review of FOIP responses suggests even those were drastically underreported.)
It may also reflect a culture among Alberta Healthcare Professionals to report MDI or Serious ADR more than the Canadian average, or that the reporting process is easier or better encouraged.
So if MDIs are 4x average, you would expect Serious ADR to be 4x average.
But No, Alberta's Serious ADR reporting rate is only ~1/4th the national rate.
By far the lowest in Canada, at 14 per 100K people, compared to national 51 per 100K.
Combined, compared to Canadian average, Alberta reports MDI at 14x the rate of Serious ADR.
Some comments about my data source. Since 16 Dec 2019, Health Canada made it mandatory for hospitals to report MDIs and the Serious subset of all ADR within 30 calendar days.
Hospitals can (and usually do) report through their health authority.
I copied several reporters on this thread, mainly in Alberta, but there may be stories at national level, or in other provinces.
I know in Alberta, many reporters are investigating GoA's sole-sourcing of MHCare Medical health products, and its impacts.
Hope these stats help.
I'm still learning how to thread at the other place, but here are my threads on the underreporting of the MHCare Medical/Atabay Adverse Drug Reactions in NICU babies:
More evidence AB Health Min LaGrange never intended ANY vaccination in physician's offices continue past April 2024.
Feb 2024: she "specifically asked" Alberta Pharmacists Association if they could do it, even if beyond their current scope of practice.
@drDavidKeegan @JMeddings
@drDavidKeegan @JMeddings @JenLeeCBC @TheBreakdownAB @TehseenLadha @Albertadoctors For the evidence she lobbied them, rather than the other way around, search Alberta Lobbyist Registry for "Alberta Pharmacists" to see their 9 Oct 2024 semi-annual filing.
For background, see @JenLeeCBC excellent reporting, especially this tweet and my 4 replies to it, showing how Min LaGrange gamed Alberta Purchasing Connection to only put out an unprecedented RFEI for this, not an RFP as she falsely claimed.
ICYMI, my request Friday to Minister @AdrianaLaGrange to recoup $49.4m from MHCare Medical/Atabay boondoggle.
Sorry to openly copy AB reporters, but questions at her pressers are so restricted.
@alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC I wasn't aware that on 10 Aug 2020, then-Education Minister Lagrange had fired a pre-emptive deceptive strike at Alberta's Ethics Commissioner Trussler about the IFR chlorine masks purchased within the previous two (2) weeks from a company in her riding.
@AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC Complaint alleged the Minister lied by claiming her political staff were NOT involved.
There are, as expected, MANY reports like this of Vanch mask problems.
Some mistakenly filed as PRIMED, but all correctly identifying importer MHCare Medical and/or the Beifa Group Chinese exporter printed on the box.
@John1MD @RajBhardwajMD
A large number of POWDER FREE NITRILE EXAMINATION GLOVES that MHCARE MEDICAL CORPORATION DBA MRAICHE HOLDING CORPORATION imported from
SHIJIAZHUANG HONGRAY GROUP CO.,LTD.
with typical MHCare Medical problems:
• poor material or build quality
• skin inflammation, rash, etc...
1. Danielle Smith ordered EVERY shipment of the $80m MHCare Medical/Atabay children's acetaminophen boondoggle to be AIRLIFTED at taxpayer expense.
2. It's likely these airlifts were handled by MHCare Medical too, with their usual profiteering off the Gov of Alberta.
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How do I know Item 1 above? Well, for starters, Smith told us in her opening PR stunt.
Stupid, wasteful decision. Even if you truly believed you were solving a shortage, you might airlift the first 1-2 shipments, while bringing the rest by ocean freight.
When I finally got my hands on $80m Danielle Smith/MHCare Medical boondoggle children's acetaminophen, I weighed & measured it.
Thanks to glass bottle: 291 grams
250,000 bottles = 73 tons!
Smith's decision to airlift that to Alberta in Jan 2023 is case study in bad ethics.
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@TheBreakdownAB @LukaszukAB @JMeddings @PfParks The whole boondoggle is enough to kick out a gov and bring in Auditor General.
But Smith's decision to manufacture AND airlift these 250,000 bottles – without a child safety cap (!) – shows the worst of it in one incident.
Shameless Smith made an expensive PR stunt about it.
GoA admitted that the package design they + MHCare submitted for Health Canada approval did not have child resistant cap required by law since at least 2006.
But Smith decided to:
• manufacture 250,000 deficient bottles anyway
• AIRLIFT them here