There are 3,000 people waiting for hip and knee surgery and 4,000 cataract surgeries waiting to be done.
There are 3,000 people waiting for hip and knee surgery and 4,000 cataract surgeries waiting to be done. Yesterday, Health Minister Tom Osborne gave an update on Health Care Action dealing with 32 recommendations of the surgical backlog task force. Cassis Chisolm is the Vice President – Transformation (Health Systems), Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services. She says the work has already started. A task force was created a year ago to determine how to reduce the backlog for surgeries and they have 32 recommendations which government will implement over the course of the next two years. Osborne says they are developing a centralized list of all surgical rooms to match with availability. Other recommendations included repurposing underused beds in care homes for non-surgical patients to free up beds in acute care, a sixth operating room at the Janeway Children’s hospital.
RCMP NL respond to 750 calls last weekend and 30 of them were motor vehicle collisions
Environment and Sustainability Program chair at Grenfell Campus talks about being ranked in the top five in Canada
Warranty work coming next week to the leisure pool and water slide at the Marina Redmond Centre
RCMP arrest a man near Deer Lake after he fled from police and damaged two cruisers
Staff at the Deer Lake Airport training on how to spot human trafficking and help victims
