Shirley Wilson has experienced the ripple effects of brain trauma first-hand.
The Abbotsford mother’s son, Jacob, was run over by a pick-up truck in 2018 when he was 21 and it left him with a brain injury.
Now, Wilson is with a delegation of British Columbians who have travelled to Ottawa to push members of parliament (MPs) to pass Bill C-277, which would trigger the creation of a national strategy on brain injuries.
According to the Brain Canada Foundation, approximately 165,000 people are affected by a traumatic brain injury in Canada every year. The foundation expects that, by 2031, traumatic brain injury will be among the most common neurological conditions affecting Canadians.
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Now, Wilson is with a delegation of British Columbians who have travelled to Ottawa to push members of parliament (MPs) to pass Bill C-277, which would trigger the creation of a national strategy on brain injuries.
The delegation, which is 25-strong and includes people with lived experience and researchers in the field, is in Ottawa this week to attend Question Period at the House of Commons and meet with MPs.
Specific recommendations include, but are not limited to, identifying training needs for health-care professionals, improving data collection on incidence and treatment, and establishing national guidelines on prevention, diagnosis and management.
C-277 also includes establishing a task force of policy makers, stakeholders and Indigenous groups as well as people with lived experience and their families to make recommendations to inform the strategy.
So we need to increase the awareness and education," said Mauricio Garcia-Barrera, a medical researcher from Victoria, also speaking Monday on CBC’s The Early Edition.
The foundation’s website says resources do not currently meet the demand for services and people suffering from brain injuries are at “high risk of missing a critical window of opportunity for recovery.”
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