Provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix says $14.3 million in this year’s budget means up to 20 adults and five children will be able to get treatment at Vancouver General Hospital or BC Children’s Hospital starting this month. Chi says the therapy is an example of how far cancer treatments ...
Health Minister Adrian Dix signed the funding agreement Tuesday (Oct. 10) with his federal counterpart Mark Holland at Vancouver General Hospital. Mental Health and Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside and federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit S. Sajjan were among a whole host of local MPs ...
a provincial review of Indigenous racism in the healthcare system. “Still to this day, I have people in communities who tell me they do not want to go to the hospital for care because that is where their grandparents
Beck said funds from the lottery directly support burn survivors across the province. Many of them are treated at the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn, Plastic and High Acuity unit at Vancouver General Hospital. ALSO READ:Greater Victoria firefighters’ cookbook raising money for young burn surv...
— Tom Fletcher (@tomfletcherbc)May 28, 2019 Beginning immediately, public and private post-secondary institutions will no longer be allowed to accept large cash payments from students, Advanced Education Minister Melanie Mark told reporters at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria. ...
Melanie Vogel’s nearly 20,000- kilometre through-hike took her to the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, before landing her in Victoria at the Pacific. She said the trek was a solo one, but the kindness of the people she met along the way meant she never felt alone. ...
MCFD records show that B.C.’s Ministry of Attorney General sent a memo to the ministry on May 6, 2019, confirming that “the use of hospital alerts, and other activities involving the disclosure of information without the consent of expectant parents is both illegal and unconstitutional.”...
Lizzy Hannah, a registered nurse who works in the intensive care unit at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, said in the release that early in the pandemic, nurses “watched in horror” at the case numbers and deaths in other parts of the world and were terrified about what might happen on ...
While the BC Coroners Service has not yet released death tolls for the final two months of the year, 2,039 people died from the unregulated, toxic drug supply in the first 10 months, amounting to six to seven lives lost a day. It continues to be the leading cause of death for British...
“There are many that come from Mexico without medical coverage. The bills are horrifying,” Lule said. “You could end up having $50,000 in debt at the [Vancouver General Hospital]. If they know you can’t pay, they won’t charge you right away, but it will for sure go on your ...