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Provincial health officials are still at work updating a 10-year-old strategy for combating a pandemic, as the NDP accuses the health ministry of having no plan if a COVID-19 outbreak strikes Saskatchewan. Opposition health critic Vicki Mowat argued that the ministry is simply “dusting off” an outdated document designed for the H1N1 virus. “This is a new virus,” she…

The possibly of a parkade being built at the Regina General Hospital is welcome news for the nurses who work there. The province has asked the Saskatchewan Health Authority to look at how feasible it would be to build a privately owned and operated parkade at the hospital after years of concerns brought forward over the safety of the current parking situation. Saskatchewan Union of Nurses…

A mental health therapist in Northern Saskatchewan says crystal meth is continuing to make its way through the province's remote communities and resources to stop it aren't keeping up. "It's like we can't catch up to this problem, we can't get ahead of it," Cindy Laliberte, who lives on the Flying Dust First Nation, said. "Current services…

Saskatchewan’s health system is set to begin a complete overhaul of its information infrastructure, a move leaders hope will help bring the province’s health systems into lockstep. The Administrative Information Management System, or AIMS, will gradually replace the 82 payroll, financial and human resources systems used by the Saskatchewan Health Authority and other health care…

The number of new HIV cases in Saskatchewan grew last year despite record funding to slow the spread of the disease. Preliminary data from the ministry of health reports 199 new cases of HIV in 2019, an 18 per cent increase from the prior year. Saskatchewan’s transmission rate is roughly double the national average — and the highest among provinces — despite years of…