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Sask. records 13 influenza deaths as flu, COVID cases decline
While COVID-19 cases continue to decline in Saskatchewan, the flu has claimed 13 more lives. According to the latest respiratory illness report from the Ministry of Health, COVID cases dropped for the...
Dec 22, 2023 The province has seen 13 flu-related deaths in a two-week period. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Province pushing ahead with plan for more addiction treatment spaces
Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health is pushing ahead with its plan to add 500 new addictions treatment spaces to the province. On Wednesday, the ministry announced that a request for supplier qualificat...
Dec 20, 2023 Tim McLeod, Saskatchewan’s minister for mental health and addictions, said the goal is to get people the help they need to recover from addictions. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Health authority recruiting staff in Saskatoon to help struggling hospitals
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says it's recruiting for more than 300 positions in order to help Saskatoon's struggling hospitals. The health authority announced its Saskatoon Capacity Pressure Act...
Dec 19, 2023 The health authority says it's recruiting for more than 300 positions in hospitals and community health care in Saskatoon. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Twitter)
NDP says obstetrical disruptions on the rise throughout Sask.
Saskatchewan's NDP is calling on the provincial government to do something about the number of obstetrical disruptions the health-care system has seen over the last several years. The issue is current...
Dec 15, 2023 NDP health critic Vicki Mowat calls on the Sask. Party government to do something about the number of obstetrical disruptions the province has seen this year. (Shane Clausing/650 CKOM)
Mistletoe Ball brings in $270K for St. Paul's Hospital Foundation
A Saskatoon hospital will be feeling a lot of joy this Christmas. The St. Paul's Hospital Foundation raised $270,000 for new technology at the hospital through its 34th annual Mistletoe Ball and the s...
Dec 15, 2023 More technology will be added to support the surgical robot at St. Paul's Hospital, thanks to a major Christmas fundraiser. (Will Mandzuk/650 CKOM)
Portable MRI coming to Regina to help reduce waiting list
With many in Saskatchewan waiting hundreds of days for MRI scans, the provincial health ministry is introducing a new tool. A mobile MRI will be deployed to Regina next year and will stay there for 24...
Dec 14, 2023 The health ministry says the new portable MRI will raise capacity by 5,000 patients over two years. (980 CJME file photo)
Ottawa's $13-billion dental plan to be slowly phased in through 2024
Canada's new federal dental insurance plan will be gradually phased in throughout the coming year, with the first claims expected to be processed in May. The federal government announced details of th...
Dec 11, 2023 A dentist holds instruments in Skokie, Ill., on Friday, June 12, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Charles Rex Arbogast
Saskatoon care homes still using anti-psychotics and restraints: Auditor's report
A handful of Saskatoon-and-area special-care homes are not meeting regulations set out by the Ministry of Health. The Saskatchewan's provincial auditor, Tara Clemett, found that the homes were using a...
Dec 11, 2023
Saskatchewan reports five more flu-related deaths
Influenza claimed the lives of five Saskatchewan residents over the past two weeks. According to the Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program report issued Friday by the Ministry of Health, ...
Dec 08, 2023
Actor Ryan Reynolds spends time with Swift Current girl after surgery
Swift Current's Bella Thomson got to meet one of the most famous actors in the world just weeks after undergoing a major surgery at the SickKids Hospital in Toronto. Just two weeks after nine-year-old...
Dec 08, 2023 Ryan Reynolds spent some time with Swift Current's "Bella Brave" shortly after her life-saving surgery. (Kyla Thomson/Instagram)
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