Darcel Lidd didn't want to die. Her mother says she is certain of that. What she wanted, Miriam Lidd says, was help assistance not readily available in her community on Labrador's northern coast.
Residents of Gander and the surrounding area want to make sure Health Minister Tom Osborne's promise to keep obstetrics units open in the community and Grand Falls-Windsor wasn't just empty words and they took to the streets Tuesday to show it.
For the third COVID-19 update in a row, there's a discrepancy between the number of new deaths announced by the Department of Health and the number of new deaths recorded in breakdowns by age and region.
The president of the province’s registered nurses union says a shortage of registered nurses in the Labrador-Grenfell Health region has reached a critical point, forcing the health authority to divert obstetrical services from Happy Valley-Goose Bay to Labrador City a seven-hour drive.
On Sunday, hundreds of friends and families of those lost held a candle lighting at St. Mark’s Anglican Church, holding a service, and reading the names of their loved ones. Hundreds more attended virtually from across the country.