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NDP MEDIA RELEASE - Nova Scotia
Vicki Conrad, MLA (Queens)
August 17 , 2006
TIME TO TAKE ACTION ON LYME DISEASE: CONRAD
Liverpool - Vicki Conrad, NDP Health Promotion and Protection Critic, is calling on provincial officials to finally admit the very real presence and threat of Lyme disease in Nova Scotia.
“We have been hearing the stories for several years now of people who have contracted Lyme disease in our province who have met with brick walls getting diagnosis and treatment,” says Conrad. “If a person has Lyme disease the complications get pretty severe if it is left untreated for too long, so this gap must be addressed.”
While the US Centre for Disease Control and other Lyme tracking organizations have been stressing the increasing risk of contracting Lyme in Nova Scotia and eastern North America, there is little or no plan to address this health threat and better equip doctors to diagnose and treat Lyme disease.
“We know that the tick population is being spread throughout our province and that new populations have been discovered in HRM, for example,” says Conrad. “We need to recognize that Lyme is a real presence here and ensure that no Nova Scotian is denied early treatment before complications set in.”
A group of Nova Scotians met yesterday in Dartmouth to express their frustrations at being unable to access a diagnosis or treatment. Some have gone on to prove, at their own expense that they do have Lyme, before they were able to get treatment but complications had set in.
Lyme disease is normally treated, in its early stages, with oral antibiotics. Conrad questions, given the relatively simple approach to treating Lyme, why so many patients who suspect Lyme exposure are denied treatment.
“It’s time for a better, long-term plan for dealing with Lyme disease. It’s clearly here to stay in Nova Scotia and this government cannot continue to keep it on the back burner.”
For more information, contact Ron Sherrard at 478-2032 (e-mail sherraro@gov.ns.ca) Or Lori Errington at 229-6826 (email erringla@gov.ns.ca)
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