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David Eby has made some significant shakeups to his cabinet following his narrow victory in October, including moving prominent health minister Adrian Dix out of health.

While many are calling the emergency room situation 'intolerable,' British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix said 'everything possible' is being done to fix it.

The call for the repeal of the Name Amendment Act comes from groups that include Gender-Affirming Healthcare, the Canadian Bar Association's BC branch and the Trans Legal Clinic.

The action comes after communities including Oliver, Merritt, Williams Lake and Lillooet have faced repeated ER closures driven primarily by staffing shortages.

The physicians set up pop-up sites at both Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Monday.

The former ministers projected to lose their seats to BC Conservatives include former education and child care minister Rachna Singh and ex-agriculture minister Pam Alexis.

It's the last week of the British Columbia election campaign after a busy long weekend of promises for the BC Conservatives, including a new Children's Hospital for Surrey.

David Eby's New Democrats won a slim, one-seat majority in last month's election, taking 47 seats in British Columbia's 93-seat legislature.

Dix first took office in 2005. Dix collected 12,297 votes in that election.

Horgan had been in the hospital for much of the past five months after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer in June. He was serving as Canada’s ambassador to Germany.

The legislation, part of the now-defunct political agreement between the Liberals and the NDP, establishes a framework for the creation of any future universal pharmacare plan.

According to the B.C. College of physicians and surgeons, there are 24 pediatricians registered in the City of Kelowna, however,  only six of them work at the hospital.

"Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre provides tertiary care to about 600,000 people from Langley through Hope and surrounding communities," Dr. Greg Lewis said.

The doctors said emergency department visits have gone up by 30 per cent over the past four years while the size of the department remains unchanged.

A B.C. infectious disease specialist says party leaders need to put aside politics and work together to help promote vaccination ahead of the fall respiratory illness season.

The machines dispensed a variety of free equipment, including naloxone kits, drug testing kits, injection kits, glass pipes, and safe sex supplies.

B.C. was the first province in Canada to announce such minimum ratios, which are intended to deliver better patient care while helping recruit and retrain nurses.

B.C. has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with Ottawa that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabetes expenses.

Operated by Interior Health, the new Vernon UPCC will be a collaboration between the Ministry of Health and several other organizations.

The United Conservative Party government is breaking apart Alberta Health Services as part of a major overhaul.