BY KEITH LACEY
City council and the Sudbury and District Health Unit are taking a proactive approach to have an action plan should any potentially deadly virus come to this community.
At city council Thursday evening, Mayor Jim Gordon announced the formation of the Mayor and Council?s Roundtable on Health Issues.
The first meeting will be held Monday at 9 am at Tom Davies Square in Room C-11.
Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, Sudbury?s medical officer of health, and Gordon will co-chair the roundtable. Gerry McIntaggart, council?s representative on the health unit?s board of directors, will play a key role.
?I see the health unit as the lead agency and I see Gerry McIntaggart playing a key role? in formulating policies and directives for the roundtable, said Gordon.
The city will help facilitate the necessary means for Sutcliffe and her staff to formulate a plan of action to be prepared should a case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) break out anywhere in the City of Greater Sudbury, said Gordon.
It?s expected the roundtable will also formulate an action plan should any case of the dreaded West Nile Virus show up once mosquito season begins.
The roundtable will meet regularly over the next several weeks to formulate a detailed action plan and the media will be informed about that action plan once it?s finalized, said Gordon.
