The funding will drive numerous immediate measures to stabilize health care in the region but won’t immediately reverse current overnight emergency room closures in Port Hardy or Alert Bay.
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner is warning that the system that stores the private medical information of British Columbians could be easily hacked.
Securing a boost in federal funding for health care is expected to be a top priority as all 13 provincial and territorial health ministers sit down with their federal counterparts in Vancouver today.
Just as cold and flu season arrives, many Vancouver Island residents are noticing medicine shelves at pharmacies are bare, especially for items like kid s cough medicine.
It s a problem that s being felt across the region.