Sixteen Nova Scotians have chosen medically assisted dying in the province as of the end of October, according to the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA).
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The NSHA says they released the numbers after enough patients had died by medically assisted dying that there was no risk of a privacy breach.
The health authority says they won’t be releasing information about individual cases, places the deaths took place or the care providers involved.
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Canada’s contentious assisted dying law, Bill C-41, was passed this past spring.
In June, the NSHA revealed four patients were being assessed for assisted dying access.
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