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The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) confirmed to Global News that overcapacity in the city’s emergency rooms (ERs) has not ended. “Saskatchewan’s tertiary care hospitals continue to experience significant capacity challenges,” read a statement from a SHA spokesperson. It also said the “adult and pediatric emergency departments in Saskatoon…

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Northwest Saskatchewan consistently has a higher suicide rate than the rest of the province, according to the Saskatchewan Coroner’s Office. Saskatchewan’s auditor is recommending eight areas where health care providers in the north can better address patients at risk of suicide. Judy Ferguson found that health care providers in northwest Saskatchewan generally…

Nurses are indispensable, whether they’re administering flu shots, assisting in surgeries, or enduring your grouchy uncle as he complains, again, about his IV being changed. In the pediatric unit, my cousin has looked after newborns in intensive care for 16 straight hours without a break, because there wasn’t a colleague free to relieve her. Few professions are nearly as honourable as…

December 6th is National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada. 67% of Canadians know a woman who has experienced physical or sexual abuse. 6,000+ women and children sleep in shelters on any given night because it isn’t safe at home. 6x Indigenous women are killed at six times the rate of non-Indigenous women. Established in 1991, this day commemorates the…