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Bill C-256

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SUMMARY

The purpose of this enactment is to encourage provinces to ensure that the health care insurance plan of a province requires hospitals to disclose, to emergency response employees who provide emergency medical or rescue services to a patient, the name and nature of an infectious or contagious disease that the patient may have transmitted to them.