How to Save Canadian Healthcare, with Dr. Danyaal Raza

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges facing Canada's healthcare system and features an interview with Dr. Danyaal Raza.

Send us a note! For decades, if you asked a Canadian to name something they appreciated about this country, our universal healthcare system would invariably come up. But in recent years, chronic underfunding, personnel shortages and the creep of privatization have taken their toll on a system that may or may not remain a point of national pride. On this episode of Sources, our health reporter, Brishti Basu, talks to Dr. Danyaal Raza, who believes Canada's public healthcare system — "one o...

People in this episode

Host: Brishti Basu

Guest: Dr. Danyaal Raza

Topics covered

• Canadian healthcare
• universal healthcare
• privatization
• healthcare funding
• healthcare personnel shortages

Keywords

• healthcare
• Canada
• universal healthcare
• privatization
• funding
• personnel shortages

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Organizations: PressProgress Sources

Places: Canada

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