Besides being forced to reuse catheters, patients are also reusing related medical equipment like the collection bag pictured here. A spinal cord injury is a spinal cord injury…. Spinal Cord Injury Ontario went province to province, trying to understand eligibility and availability and found “they’re very inconsistent and hard to determine,” said Athanasopoulos. WATCH | Struggling to pay for basic medical supplies: Toronto man with paraplegia struggles to pay for supplies not covered by health system | Go Public A Toronto man paralyzed in a fall years ago is now struggling to pay for some basic medical supplies because they’re not covered by the province’s health system. A 2013 Health Canada-funded study estimates the annual economic burden of traumatic spinal cord injury, including post-injury complications, at $2.67 billion.

Source: CBC News March 28, 2022 10:58 UTC