More than 1,000 patients in western Newfoundland have had their privacy violated after an employee inappropriately accessed their personal records, a provincial health board said Wednesday.
Western Health said it fired the employee after discovering that 1,043 people had their privacy breached.
“Western Health would like to apologize to each patient who has had their privacy breached,” Dr. Susan Gillam, the health board’s CEO, said in a statement.
Read more in The Toronto Post.