Three times a week, without exception, tens of thousands of Canadians must reach a machine that does what their kidneys cannot — and a McGill University study now reveals that two-thirds of those machines sit in the path of an intensifying fire. Researchers mapped 341 dialysis facilities against thirty years of wildfire records and found that the infrastructure sustaining life is increasingly entangled with the infrastructure of climate crisis. It is a collision not of bad luck but of long-deferred reckoning: the places where people settled, built hospitals, and grew ill are the same places no
Wildfires threaten dialysis care for two-thirds of Canadian patients, study finds
Approximately 23,000 Canadians receiving in-center hemodialysis face potential treatment disruption due to wildfire proximity and air quality degradation.