Saskatchewan Medical Association

SMA calls for mandatory vaccines for all healthcare workers in Saskatchewan

Aug 11, 2021 | 8:13pm

The provincial government is being called on to make vaccines mandatory for all healthcare workers by the Saskatchewan Medical Association. The call comes as Saskatchewan deals with what appears to be the beginning of the fourth wave of COVID-19. President Dr. Eben Strydom says to put it simply, vaccines work. “It’s safe, it protects, it […]

Saskatchewan’s doctors feel government needs to invest in safe consumption sites

Jul 3, 2021 | 9:09am

The Saskatchewan Medical Association has passed a resolution calling for provincial funding for 24-hour-a-day safe consumption sites. Saskatoon doctor Carla Holinaty  called for the motion.  She says safe consumption sites are needed all over the province and not just Regina and Saskatoon. “People don’t just use drugs in cities.  People use drugs across the world […]

New SMA President shifting focus on improving rural health

Jun 19, 2021 | 11:34am

The newly-elected president of the Saskatchewan Medical Association believes one of his largest tasks is addressing issues surrounding rural health in the province. Dr. Eben Strydom says one of those issues is providing access to care by finding solutions to systemic problems that limit these services. He says one factor is that the number of […]

Melfort doctor new head of Saskatchewan Medical Association

May 8, 2021 | 12:45pm

The Saskatchewan Medical Association has a new president. Dr. Eben Strydom of Melfort was named to the position on Friday. As a family physician in Melfort, Dr. Strydom said rural medicine is one of his priorities. “Vulnerabilities in rural health care have been magnified by the pandemic. Every region is different, but they all require […]

Saskatchewan health-care organizations teaming up to address vaccine hesitancy

Apr 19, 2021 | 12:24pm

Over 20 healthcare organizations are getting together for an advertising campaign aimed at getting people vaccinated against COVID-19 and taking whatever vaccine is available to them The campaign expresses the theme that “Hope is within arm’s reach” and tackle issues around the vaccine hesitancy some are feeling. “We are encouraging the public to get vaccinated […]

Saskatchewan Medical Association stresses importance of vaccinating health care workers

Apr 7, 2021 | 5:43pm

The Saskatchewan Medical Association wants to see all essential health care workers offered vaccines immediately. President Dr. Barb Konstantynowicz says many health care workers are seeing a large amount of patients in a day, increasing their risk of exposure. “People who cannot stay at home, isolate from their families, or isolate, period, are at greater […]

SMA feels Sask gov’t must change its vaccine strategy to protect frontline workers as variants of concern keep growing

Apr 7, 2021 | 2:18pm

The Saskatchewan Medical Association is making a plea to the provincial government to change its vaccine strategy from one that is age-based to one that would see all essential workers including healthcare workers who haven’t received their first dose yet get vaccinated immediately. President Barb Konstantynowicz says COVID-19 is mutating into variants of concern  that […]

Group representing Sask. doctors want gov’t to redo vaccine delivery plan

Feb 12, 2021 | 4:28am

The vaccine delivery plan announced earlier this week by the provincial government is getting a thumbs down from the group representing 2,600 physicians across the province. The Saskatchewan Medical Association says that plan doesn’t give the protection physicians and health-care workers need to properly care for their patients—some of whom are afraid to visit a […]

SMA president ‘strongly denounces’ small protest at Dr. Shahab’s home

Jan 25, 2021 | 11:42am

One of the province’s top doctors is strongly denouncing a small protest that happened outside of Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab’s home over the weekend. Dr. Barb Konstantynowicz, president of the Saskatchewan Medical Association, shared in a statement on Monday that Saturday’s incident was an attempt to intimidate Dr. Shahab and his family. […]

Sask. doctors express more than just COVID-19 concerns to association president

Sep 21, 2020 | 4:57am

Each year, the head of the Saskatchewan Medical Association likes to tour the province and meet with doctors to discuss what concerns they have and how best to address them, With COVID-19 still being prevalent, Dr. Barb Konstantynowicz can’t do those visits face-to-face, but she is holding virtual meetings with six of eleven having been […]

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