What happens when a baby who lives in the North screens positive for cystic fibrosis?
When a baby from Northern Ontario screens positive for cystic fibrosis, a health care provider from NSO contacts the baby’s primary health care provider to discuss the screening results. The baby’s health care provider discloses the results to the family, and asks the family which treatment centre they would like to travel to to have the sweat test performed. NSO then refers this baby to the treatment centre of the family’s choice. Families in northwestern Ontario may choose to go to the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.
