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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
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
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
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
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
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 Reports from the 2023 audit worsened since 2019 for three measures (residents in daily restraints, use of anti-psychotics and pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores). (File photo)
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 Only to the Ministry of Health, just over 21 per cent of Saskatchewan residents have got their flu shot this year. (The Canadian Press file photo)
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
Harrison heading to Philippines and Singapore to recruit, improve trade ties
Saskatchewan is on a mission to recruit workers in the Philippines and strengthen trade ties in Singapore. Jeremy Harrison, who serves as the province's minister for trade and export development and a...
Dec 08, 2023
Sask. extends incentives to attract health-care workers to rural areas
The Saskatchewan government is putting up more money to get health-care workers into rural areas of the province. The government announced Thursday it's putting up another $3 million to extend the Rur...
Dec 07, 2023 The program offers incentives of between $30,000 and $50,000 over three years. (980 CJME file photo)
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