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Mental health records sent to N.S. spa in error over last decade

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Dissent

Yvonne Colbert reports:

A Bedford, N.S., woman has spent more than a decade trying to plug a privacy breach that has resulted in personal mental health records being faxed to her business, and has turned to CBC News in an effort to get the faxes to stop.

Over the years, Lisa Belanger estimates she’s received dozens of faxes from doctors’ offices around the province, all intended for a mental health referral office. Belanger says she’s been repeatedly assured that the problem would be fixed.

Read more on CBC News.


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