Staff shortages at the Meadow Lake Hospital continue more than a year after Kendal Carlberg was forced to give birth to her daughter on the side of a road.
Tag: Sask.
Influenza has killed 3 unvaccinated Sask. preschoolers so far this season: public health officials
Health officials are pleading with families to get flu shots, with hospitalization rates for the flu this season highest for children under age nine. Only one in three Saskatchewan toddlers has had the vaccine, the provincial health authority says.
Listeners offer support to Sask. gynecologic oncologists who feel burned out
Listeners of The Morning Edition offered words of support and shared their experiences with two specialists who recently told CBC News they left their positions due to excessive workload without much relief
More teens in Sask. are smokers than in any other province: Health Canada survey
Saskatchewan teens are smoking almost three times more than their peers in other provinces, according to newly released numbers.
‘Very, very hurtful’: Sask. patients, doctors aim to move past fat shaming in health care
The health risks of obesity are well-documented, but people are opening up about the negative impact it of medical professionals seeing them only through the lens of their weight or body mass index.
Women in northern and rural Sask. travel nearly 900 km to give birth
For some women living outside Saskatchewan’s major cities, giving birth in the care of medical professionals requires travelling hundreds of kilometres in multiple aircraft.
Women in northern and rural Sask. travel nearly 900 km to give birth
For some women living outside Saskatchewan’s major cities, giving birth in the care of medical professionals requires travelling hundreds of kilometres in multiple aircraft.
After watching their dog die ‘a painful death,’ owners want ban on strychnine used by Sask., Alta. farmers
Strychnine is used by farmers under provincial oversight to control the ground squirrel and northern pocket gopher population. But dog owners and others want them to ban strychnine for use on gophers due to the effect it has on other animals — something Health Canada is considering.
Sask. nurses want prescribing power to tackle opioid addiction
On Thursday, Saskatchewan nurses will vote on proposed bylaw changes that would allow them to prescribe opioid substitution therapies, like methadone.
Sask. apologizes after 1 Humboldt player believed alive is dead, other pronounced dead is alive
Saskatchewan’s Justice Ministry has issued an apology after two players on the bus that crashed while taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game were misidentified — one who was pronounced to be dead is alive, and the other said to have been alive is dead. Xavier Labelle, in fact, survived the crash. […]
