Healthcare services delayed because of COVID-19 will start up again next week with the hope being 90 percent of them can be done before the month is over. Both Premier Scott Moe and Health Minister Paul Merriman made that declaration during Question Period on Wednesday. In September, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said many cancer treatments, […]
The province says monoclonal antibody treatment is now available for those in Saskatchewan who have tested positive for COVID-19. That one-time treatment is effective in the very early phase of infection and is intended to prevent unvaccinated or severely immunosuppressed residents who have contracted COVID-19 from requiring hospitalization. Those eligible for the treatment would include […]
It is news many parents have been waiting for. Pfizer has officially applied for Canadian authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine meant for those between the ages of five to 11, bringing the country one step closer to protection for the school-aged population. It is hoped Health Canada can give the go-ahead on the vaccine so […]
26 new cases, 20 recoveries and no deaths. That is the information provided by the province in its daily COVID-19 update. With those numbers, the active case count crawls up to 287. The new cases are located in the following zones: Far North West, 14; Far North East, 1; North West, 2; North Central, 1; […]
Health Canada is on track to give the green light to a third COVID-19 vaccine within the next two weeks and a fourth may not be far behind, offering a glimmer of hope at the end of a week of nothing but vaccine vexation. Eric Morrissette, chief of media relations at Health Canada, said Friday […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has signed a contract to receive up to 168,000 doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December. The Moderna vaccine has not yet been approved by Health Canada but Trudeau says deliveries could begin within 48 hours of that happening. The chief medical adviser at Health Canada, […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the first COVID-19 vaccine doses are on track to arrive this month, as tough new measures took effect in Prince Edward Island and Ontario hit a new daily case record today. Trudeau says Ottawa has reached an agreement with Pfizer to have up to 249,000 doses delivered, pending Health Canada […]
The Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation radiothon, presented by CIBC Wood Gundy, began Wednesday morning on 620 CKRM. We are asking for your help from now until 5 PM Thursday to raise money in this virtual event for opening the very first pediatric hemodialysis unit for kids in Saskatchewan. Hospital Foundation CEO Brynn Boback-Lane says […]
It is something that many in Regina have been saying has been needed for a long time. Health Minister Jim Reiter and officials from the Saskatchewan Health Authority were at the Pasqua Hospital on Monday morning to announce plans for a $15-million urgent care centre. Funding will be taken from the government’s two-year, $7.5 billion […]
The Saskatchewan Medical Association and the government are announcing physicians have voted 90 percent in favour of ratifying a new five-year agreement. Health minister Jim Reiter says in a release from the province Wednesday morning that this positive step will maintain one of the most competitive remuneration and benefits package for physicians in Canada, in […]
