Health

Hay River’s ongoing illegal drug problem has prompted another public health advisory, as potentially lethal mixtures including with methamphetamine are now being detected. Brown crack cocaine mixed with multiple other substances including fentanyl, norfentanyl, methamphetamine and benzodiazepine found in the town prompted today’s health advisory. Hay River has detected benzodiazepine…

The territorial government regards midwifery care as “peripheral and dispensable,” as it threatens to cut nearly $1 million from midwifery services. That’s the position of the Midwives Association of the Northwest Territories, which stated in a release today the potential $990,000 cash shortfall, currently under consideration by the Legislative Assembly,…

Health-care facilities in Yellowknife are undergoing a major procedure to create a new campus of care model that allows for co-location of services with the $350-million Stanton Territorial Hospital, which opened in May 2019. If you are used to visiting your family doctor at the Primary Care Centre downtown or…

To accommodate increased demand for measles vaccinations, routine booked appointments at Yellowknife Public Health may be rescheduled and any people affected will be contacted with details. Yellowknife Public Health officials believe the surge was prompted by a recent Measles Alert issued last week by the NWT’s Chief Public Health Officer…