Seniors living in the Dehcho and Sahtu regions can now rest easy in the evenings with their home-care worker under a new pilot program by the GNWT. NWT Health and Social Services Authority has added a few extra hours on evenings and even weekends, which are outside of the traditional…
The creation of a Territorial Addictions Medicine Team to increase coordination of treatments, and more culturally appropriate mental wellness and suicide prevention programming, were part of a $36 million health-care announcement today. Through the Working Together Agreement, the Government of Canada will first provide more than $24 million to support…
A nursing shortage at the Inuvik Regional Hospital will mean changes to how pregnancies are handled now through the weekend. From now until Sunday at midnight, only emergency labour and delivery services will be available in the Beaufort Delta. Northwest Territories Health and Social Services (NTHSSA) announced the reduction in…
For the first time ever, the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease has been identified in the Northwest Territories. That’s according to the territory’s Department of Health and Social Services on Thursday. As of yet, there are no confirmed human cases of the disease. But earlier this month, a Fort Simpson-area…
Until recently, Brandon Buggins didn’t really know the other men in his community, even the ones he would casually greet out in public. Buggins was a closed book too, even when struggling with mental illness, addiction, and the pressures of fatherhood: “It’s really tough to be able to come out…
For Sir John Franklin High School Student Reanna Brownlee, addictions and mental health are issues that hit close to home. “I’m doing it for the kids around me, all the kids I work with,” she says. “There’s so many kids with parents that struggle from addiction and suffer — my…
The Chief Public Health Officer has issued a health advisory over a confirmed case of hepatitis A (an infection of the liver), coming from a food handler working at two restaurants inside the Edmonton International Airport. Any residents who ate at the Belgian Beer Café or Boston Pizza in early…
Yellowknife’s long-awaited Wellness and Recovery Centre is getting a $24 million funding boost from the federal government. That’s according to a joint announcement by Northwest Territories MP Michael McLeod and Minister of Health and Social Services Julie Green on Friday. Once complete, the new centre will offer a variety of…
As wildfires rage across the territory, smoke seemed to be stubbornly stuck above the N.W.T. capital. BreezoMeter provides real-time air quality data for locations across the world. This morning, data collected by the website showed the air quality above Yellowknife was poor enough to pose a “very high health risk”…
Anthrax has been confirmed in the bison population of the Slave River Lowlands through laboratory testing. The cases were confirmed on Friday. The report from Environment and Climate Change states that, consequently, all bison carcasses will now be regarded as confirmed anthrax cases. So far, 27 cases of anthrax have…