Ontario's Health minister, Deb Matthews, announced yesterday that the province's overhauled electronic health records program had successfully digitised 5 million patients' medical charts. She added that there are now 5,500 doctors using electronic records-almost twice as many as a year ago.

On Friday, Deb Matthews, the Health Minister of Ontario declared delivering dental care to nearly 130,000 children up to the age of 18 of households with income as low as $20,000 or less and who don’t possess dental insurance coverage.

The announcement was made at the Middlesex-London Health Unit and Mathews stated that such a kind of investment was required for the dental care of kids.