BC Health Ministry

• ‘Dehumanizing’: B.C. woman outraged her mother placed in hospital sunroom with no call button

  For a second time, a patient at Royal Jubilee hospital in Victoria has complained about being put into a sunroom rather than a proper recovery room after receiving treatment.

  Health

  Aug 11, 2022
  
• ‘Absolutely ridiculous’: B.C. parents unable to register their baby’s Indigenous name

  Crystal Smith and Raymond Shaw say they won't register three-month-old λugʷaləs K’ala’ask Shaw until B.C.'s Vital Statistics Agency can accept his name as written.

  Perspectives

  Apr 18, 2022
  
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• 6th case of COVID-19 reported in B.C., contracted by woman visiting Iran

  B.C.'s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix called a last minute press conference to update the public on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).

  Health

  Feb 20, 2020
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• B.C.’s HIV rate hits record low thanks to provincial programs: health ministry

  The province used World AIDS Day to announce the number of annual HIV cases in B.C. has fallen to 208 in 2018.

  Dec 1, 2019
• B.C father calls for change in how walk-in clinics operate throughout province

  "There shouldn't be a situation where we need to go to an ER just for something so simple..."

  Health

  Jan 17, 2018
• B.C. medical wait times set new record: Fraser Institute

  The study, which surveys doctors across the country, looks at wait times across 12 medical specialties.

  Health

  Dec 7, 2017
• B.C. government approves coverage of expensive drug for student with rare disease

  The medicine costs approximately $750,000 a year and can improve a patient’s condition who’s living with aHUS.

  Nov 21, 2017
• Mississauga woman whose life was saved by expensive drug pushes B.C. to cover its costs like Ontario does

  Nadia Saiphoo was planning her funeral before taking Soliris. Within a week, she was able to leave the hospital.

  Health

  Nov 16, 2017
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• B.C. now has a roadmap for how to prescribe drugs like heroin, for opioid addiction

  "These guidelines really are the foundation and will support provincial expansion and roll out.”

  Oct 12, 2017
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• B.C. spending $91M over three years to hire 60 paramedics and buy six ambulances

  British Columbia is getting more paramedics, dispatchers and ambulances in an effort by the government to improve emergency services.

  Mar 8, 2017