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B.C. maintains COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care workers

WEBTHE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg. B.C.’s Ministry of Health confirms that the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in the public system and …

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Growing backlash over B.C.'s Bill 36 CTV News

WEBData by the health ministry show 129,313 health-care workers were governed by colleges in the province of British Columbia at the time of the bill’s passage. …

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B.C. health officials announce plans for respiratory illness season

WEBB.C.'s public vaccination campaign for the fall respiratory illness season will begin Oct. 10, health officials announced Thursday. Health Minister Adrian Dix and …

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B.C. respiratory illness data: Flu, RSV cases rising CTV News

WEBFor influenza and RSV, however, positivity rose noticeably. Some 12.8 per cent of influenza tests came back positive during the week that ended Dec. 9, compared …

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B.C. health officials urge vaccination ahead of the holidays

WEBPublished Dec. 11, 2023 9:29 a.m. PST. Share. Health officials in B.C. are again appealing to people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and influenza before they gather with …

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What will federal pharmacare deal mean for B.C. residents

WEBPublished Feb. 24, 2024 10:00 a.m. PST. Share. The federal Liberals and NDP have agreed to a national pharmacare deal – highlighted by free diabetes medication and …

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Ministry shares regional stats on B.C.'s new family doctors CTV …

WEBThe health authority added 132 doctors to its 2022-23 total of 1,308, for a 2023-24 total of 1,440, according to the ministry's statistics. That's an increase of 10 per …

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ER closures in Northern B.C. spark safety concerns CTV News

WEBA series of emergency department closures in Northern B.C. is concerning and frustrating local patients, as the health authority insists it’s doing everything it can to …

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Adrian Dix, Bonnie Henry provide respiratory illness update CTV …

WEBThe province's inpatient hospital population was 10,435 on Tuesday, Health Minister Adrian Dix said at a news conference on Wednesday. That's up from an …

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B.C. study shows increasing complexity of patients' needs CTV …

WEBVANCOUVER -. A British Columbia study showing that hospitalized patients' medical issues have become increasingly complex also highlights the need to address …

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Richmond will keep talking to VCH about safe consumption site

WEBWith Vancouver Coastal Health quashing Richmond's proposal to explore a supervised consumption site near the hospital, the city's mayor says conversations with …

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WEBResidents of this B.C. city lost more than $16M to 'pig butchering' scams last year, RCMP say. Since the start of 2023, residents of Richmond, B.C., have lost more than $16 …

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Riverview Hospital: A look at current treatment on site CTV News

WEBThe Riverview Hospital itself has been closed for more than a decade, but 289 people are currently receiving treatment for mental health, addictions or both at the …

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B.C. news: Young woman died after misdiagnosis, family says CTV …

WEBB.C. family says 23-year-old woman died after misdiagnosis, prompting calls for accountability. B.C.'s provincial health-care system is under scrutiny following the …

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B.C. COVID-19 update: 219 in hospital to start 2024 CTV News

WEBNearly four years after B.C. confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus that would come to be known as COVID-19, the province begins 2024 with 219 people …

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B.C. COVID-19 data: 174 in hospital in latest update

WEBPublished Nov. 30, 2023 4:55 p.m. PST. Share. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. fell again this week. The B.C. Centre for Disease …

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B.C. health-care crisis: Bigger bureaucracy, longer waits and calls …

WEBPublished June 14, 2023 7:49 p.m. PDT. Share. British Columbia’s health-care bureaucracy is growing while the front line thins, prompting fresh calls for attention to …

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Some B.C. hospitals 'close to collapse' amid surge in unvaccinated

WEBPublished Sept. 10, 2021 7:22 p.m. PDT. Share. Vancouver -. Frontline health-care workers are sounding the alarm that part of B.C.’s health-care system is on the verge of …

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Doctors offered $500 bonuses to cover B.C. hospital shifts CTV …

WEBHospitalist doctors in Fraser Health are being offered $500 bonuses to cover emergency department shifts at two hospitals with urgent need, a practice the health …

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