Tag Archives: Health
Miracle Treat Day: Making a difference one Blizzard at a time
There has never been a better day for some ice cream. Thursday, Aug. 11, is Miracle Treat Day at Dairy Queen locations across Saskatchewan with 100 percent of net proceeds from each Blizzard treat sol...
Aug 11, 2022
Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids but acknowledges that providing new services is "co...
Aug 09, 2022
Meota fundraiser concert for BUH Foundation a big success
The recent fundraiser concert in Meota saw a great show of support and brought in $17,155 for the Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH) Foundation. All proceeds benefit the "Every Minute Matters" ER capita...
Aug 08, 2022
‘We have a problem’: Nurses union says Northern Sask. not immune to health care shortages
As stories of hospitals and health care centres buckling under pressure continue to surface, one of the province's biggest health care unions say the same issues are being felt in northern Saskatchewa...
Aug 05, 2022
How pigs are helping researchers find ways to keep organs alive after death
Yale researchers may have found a way to keep organs alive longer after death. Using new technology, they were able to restore blood circulation and other cellular functions in pigs a full hour after ...
Aug 04, 2022
Suicide rate in northern girls 26 times higher, a part of psychiatric crisis
Indigenous girls in northern Saskatchewan take their own lives at 26 times the rate of their southern counterparts and they have been relying on services in Prince Albert, said Carla Beck of the NDP. ...
Aug 04, 2022
Six infants stillborn in Sask. syphilis outbreak
An increase in syphilis in parts of Saskatchewan has led to the still births of six babies according to the medical officer of health for Indigenous Services in Saskatchewan. Dr. Ibrahim Khan said on-...
Jul 29, 2022
New ambulance rates in St. Walburg
Rates are changing for ambulance services in St. Walburg.Starting Sept. 1, WestMed Paramedics Inc. in the town will see rates change to $325 per call, as a result of being designated as an Advanced Li...
Jul 27, 2022
COVID in wastewater increases but remains in the low range
While the amount of COVID in Prince Albert and North Battleford wastewater has increased since last week, the amounts are still lower than peaks seen in the past. As of July 18, the overall viral load...
Jul 25, 2022
WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency
LONDON - The chief of the World Health Organization says the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an "extraordinary" situation that qualifies as a global emergency. The head of th...
Jul 23, 2022