Peter McKenna delivered some bleak news as the Leeds Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit board chair.
A recent virtual conference between the province’s health units and Ontario’s top doctor Kieran Moore shined some light on difficult not but unexpected figures.
Of course the COVID-19 pandemic was a major reason why this was the case but Moore also put part of the onus on the opioid crisis, claiming the lives of young adults.
Life expectancy across Canada fell for the third straight year in 2022, down to 81.3, almost a full year less than in 2019.
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