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Health-care staffing issues not just due to COVID-19: SEIU-West
For weeks, we've been hearing that the limiting factor in Saskatchewan hospitals isn't necessarily the equipment but the properly trained health-care workers — and top officials of the SEIU-West...
Oct 21, 2021
SHA takes next step in fight against COVID
The Saskatchewan Health Authority is stepping up its efforts in order to fight the fourth wave of COVID-19 in the province. In a media release Friday, the SHA said it was activating "a second phase of...
Sep 17, 2021
'We will be tested as an organization,' health authority CEO says
The CEO of the Saskatchewan Health Authority said Thursday the province's health-care system is in critical condition. Scott Livingstone reaffirmed the authority will do what it can to handle the risi...
Sep 16, 2021
Private care-home owner warns against federal NDP plan on public-run homes
With the federal election coming up during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion around long-term care homes (LTC). Some of the country's worst COVID outbreaks were in LTCs. It was...
Sep 07, 2021
Sask. health care workers account for 5 per cent of provincial cases: CIHI
Health care workers in Saskatchewan were sick from COVID-19 at a rate lower than the national average consistently through the pandemic. New statistics from the Canadian Institute for Health Informati...
Aug 19, 2021 Nurse Leah Sawatsky receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 15, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Samwel Uko's loved ones renew call for justice one year after 20 year old's death
Family and friends of Samwel Uko met in Regina's Wascana Park on Friday for a memorial commemorating the first anniversary of 20-year-old Uko's death, which raised concerns about mental health care in...
May 22, 2021
India tops 200,000 dead as virus surge breaks health system
NEW DELHI - India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms ...
Apr 28, 2021
SUN, SEIU-West ratify new contracts with SAHO
For the first time since the Saskatchewan Health Authority was formed in December of 2017, it has collective bargaining agreements in place with the unions that represent all of its employees. In a me...
Jan 28, 2021
COVID outbreak at Saskatoon bar labelled as 'potential super spreader'
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is warning the public about a "potential super-spreader" COVID-19 event at a Saskatoon restaurant and bar. The SHA says individuals who attended Crackers Restau...
Jan 11, 2021 (Google)
‘After a week, we thought, 'Gosh, she’s gonna make it' ’: 106-year-old woman beats COVID-19
In her lifetime, Prince Albert's Rubena Wenzel has lived through world wars and now survived two pandemics, the Spanish flu in 1918 and COVID-19 in 2020. Roughly 2 1/2 weeks after her initial positive...
Dec 31, 2020 A recent photo taken of Rubena Wenzel. (Bev Smith/submitted)
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