Gregory Lick, the Canadian Armed Forces ombudsman, said there are also gaps in health-care policies and a shortage of health professionals which put the military's 28,500 reservists at a disadvantage compared to regular force members.
That means wait times are long for military health services. The report said there is a biased belief that domestic operations have a lesser impact on mental health, and in some cases that has meant the Armed Forces is skipping pre-deployment screenings for reservists. Just 38 per cent of the people who said they had a medical screening within the last year were reserve members, and there's no system in place to flag when a health assessment is due.
But being deployed to fight raging forest fires, to evacuate people from danger zones as flames move in, or to rescue people from rising floodwaters also takes a toll. The report calls for a slate of changes to be made by the fall of 2025 including formalizing post-deployment check-ins and strengthening the oversight of mental health screenings.
Any member is able to get an assessment and referral from the program, but some care providers and reservists were unaware of that.
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