Man shot in Village
A young man was shot Sunday evening in a gas station in the Village. Cops were called for gunfire, but only found shells on the ground; later, the victim turned up in hospital.
So if you go to hospital with bullet wounds, medical personnel are obliged to call the cops? Health privacy doesn’t apply?
Dominic 08:56 on 2022-10-03 Permalink
I believe its always been that way, and its definitely the case in the United States. If someone gets medical care for a firearms injury, the police are notified. Not sure how the health privacy exception is carved out is legislation, but logically there hardly seems a legal reason to explain why a human has a bullet wound.
H. John 09:27 on 2022-10-03 Permalink
ACT TO PROTECT PERSONS WITH REGARD TO ACTIVITIES INVOLVING FIREARMS
https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/document/cs/P-38.0001
Section 9 says:
9. A director of an institution that operates a hospital centre or local community service centre within the meaning of the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2), or a person designated by the director, must report to the police any instance of a person being treated in the institution for an injury caused by a projectile from a firearm, specifying only the person’s identity, if known, and the name of the institution. This information is communicated orally and as soon as is practicably possible, considering the importance of not hampering the treatment of the person concerned or disrupting the normal course of the institution’s activities.
Here’s an article on Mandatory Gunshot reporting in Canada published in 2016.
https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=scholarly_works
Kate 09:44 on 2022-10-03 Permalink
Thank you, H. John!