Bill C-206: An Act to establish a national strategy on brain injuries
Brain injury changes quality of life. Canada needs a national strategy.
1.6 mllion Canadians are living with brain injury. Each differs in their effects on a person, and it is more than just physical; it can impact cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects in life. Altering mobility, employment, education, and everyday independence. The impacts go beyond the initial injury.
Awareness is where we start. Understanding how a person's ability to work, learn, and live changes with brain injury and further affects loved ones and caregivers who provide essential support. Research, awareness, prevention, treatment, and long-term care are necessary, so Canadians do not face these medical and lifelong hardships alone.
This is why I introduced Bill C-206, An Act to establish a national strategy on brain injuries. If passed, Bill C-206 would establish a national strategy to support brain injury awareness, injury, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery. It represents a vital first step towards the respect and care people living with brain injuries deserve.
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