• Reporting duties of clinicians as per the public health and communicable diseases legislation
• List of Reportable Diseases
• Contacting a Medical Health Officer in your area
• How to contact the First Nations and Inuit Health (FNIH) Regional Medical Officer:
• Dr Marcus Lem
  Director of Health Protection
  Phone: 604-666-9092
  Email: Marcus_Lem@hc-sc.gc.ca
• How do you send a viral swab to the lab?
  When sending a viral swab from a remote or isolated area:
• Send the specimen as soon as possible after collection
• Keep specimen cool and ship with ice packs to the lab
• How Medical Health Officers communicate information to clinicians
• How  First Nations and Inuit Health Regional Medical Officers communicate with FNIH clinical staff:
• Reports are mailed promptly to the health facility caring for the client. The Regional Medical Officer is available for phone consultation and follow-up if required.

Public Information Lines for FNIH clinical staff: Translation services are available in 130 languages.

• HealthLinkBC: 811
• Call in Greater Vancouver: 604 215-4700
• Deaf/Hearing-impaired Toll-free in BC (TTY): 1 866 889-4700