Nunavut’s Health Minister rejected most of the privacy commissioner’s recommendations, arguing that the territory’s hamlets are so small that TB-infected patients might be identified if community case numbers were made public
The Government of Nunavut is declining to release detailed statistics about tuberculosis, including the number of cases identified annually in each of Nunavut’s communities, despite the territory’s information and privacy commissioner calling for more transparency in response to an appeal by The Globe and Mail.letter
The Nunavut Department of Health declined to release anything other than annual TB case counts and rates per 100,000 for the entire territory up to the end of 2020. Four years later, it’s hard to say if the pledge is helping. That’s because, unlike COVID-19 data, thorough and up-to-date statistics on tuberculosis in Canada aren’t publicly available. The last year for which the Public Health Agency of Canada publishedNational statistics up to the end of 2020 are expected to be released by the end of this month, a spokesman for the agency said.
When it comes to local TB data, health authorities in Canada’s four Inuit regions – Inuvialuit in the Northwest Territories, Nunavik in northern Quebec, Nunatsiavut in northern Labrador and the territory of Nunavut – provided The Globe with more recent figures than the federal public health agency.
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