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Author Archives: Lisa Schick
ICU pressure affecting patient care, could continue to December
The crushing pressure COVID-19 cases are putting on Saskatchewan's health-care system is affecting the care patients are getting and that pressure could continue for months yet. Last spring, at the be...
Oct 24, 2021 Regina General Hospital. (980 CJME file photo)
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 unio...
Oct 21, 2021 SEIU-West vice-president Neil Colmin.
Shahab breaks down while discussing COVID modelling
Many people are feeling the pressure of 20 months under a pandemic, particularly as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Saskatchewan and the health-care system reaches a breaking point. On Wednesday, D...
Oct 20, 2021 Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
NDP calling for Shahab's recommendations to be released
Saskatchewan's current situation in the COVID-19 pandemic is sad and frustrating and avoidable, according to the NDP. NDP MLA Vicki Mowat, the party's health critic, said the health system has collaps...
Oct 19, 2021 NDP MLA Vicki Mowat. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
'High number' of people in Sask. don't know they have COVID-19
Hundreds of people every day in Saskatchewan are finding out they have COVID-19, but it's believed there are even more who don't know. Scott Livingstone, the CEO of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, ...
Oct 17, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
SHA to take full control of Extendicare homes in Saskatchewan
Two months after temporarily taking over management of Extendicare homes in the province, the Saskatchewan Health Authority is set to take full control of the company's five long-term care facilities....
Oct 14, 2021 Parkside Extendicare in Regina. (Kevin Martel/980 CJME file photo)
Sask. Health Authority preparing for patient transfers, triage
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is preparing for the COVID-19 situation to get worse. It and the provincial government have been in early talks with the Government of Ontario about the possibi...
Oct 13, 2021 Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
NDP, organizations, people call on government to 'fix' social assistance
A small group of six tents takes up a portion of Regina's Pepsi Park these days, a home for people who have nowhere else to go. Advocates say it's a symptom of the long-standing homeless problem in Re...
Oct 12, 2021 Gavin Siggelkow is staying at the ten camp in Pepsi Park in Regina. Oct. 12, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Physician town hall paints grim pictures of Sask. COVID-19 situation
During Thursday night's virtual meeting with health-care professionals across the province, the top doctors in the Saskatchewan Health Authority painted a picture of dwindling hospital beds, patients ...
Oct 08, 2021
SUN worried about new provincial command for COVID
The head of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses isn't sure a "provincial command centre" is what the government should be worried about right now. On Thursday morning, Premier Scott Moe announced that pr...
Oct 08, 2021 Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory. (650 CKOM file photo)
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