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Show us some respect
Due to COVID-19, elective surgeries have well over 30,000 people waiting. Before COVID there was about 11,000. I’ve been waiting for two years for a heart procedure and the same amount of time just to see a specialist about another issue.
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My issue isn’t with the wait time, but with the way doctors handle it. Not once have I received any kind of notice from said doctors that I was on their to-do list.
Posted: May 25, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 25
Forty-one residents of the public funded but privately operated Extendicare Parkside care home in Regina died during a COVID-19 outbreak from late November to mid-January. (Submitted to CBC) comments
The independent office investigating the deadly COVID-19 outbreak connected to 41 deaths at the Extendicare Parkside care home in Regina says it expects to release its findings later this year.
In late January, Saskatchewan ombudsman Mary McFadyen announced her office would conduct the probe.
Though McFadyen has free rein to examine factors she believes are relevant, the Saskatchewan government made recommendations for what the investigation should look at, including:
Vaccines doses pass 620,000, people 12 and up now eligible More than 620,000 vaccines have now been administered in Saskatchewan as vaccinations open up to those as young as 12.
Author of the article: Heather Polischuk
Publishing date: May 20, 2021 • 48 minutes ago • 4 minute read • A health-care professional prepares a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as high-risk workers receive the first vaccines in the state of Victoria s rollout of the program, in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 22, 2021. Photo by SANDRA SANDERS /REUTERS
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Increasing vaccine numbers mean the province will be further easing restrictions at long-term care and personal-care homes.
Seniors Minister Everett Hindley announced the upcoming changes at a Thursday news conference, noting that the easing of restrictions is part of the province’s Re-Opening Roadmap.
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Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone. (Brandon Harder/Regina Leader-Post)
On Thursday, the province announced a plan to further ease visitor restrictions in long-term care and personal care homes in alignment with the three steps of the recently announced Re-opening Roadmap. Mental Health and Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health Minister Everett Hindley said that the province made the decision because of the vaccine uptake in the province.
“Saskatchewan’s vaccination program continues to enjoy huge uptake across all age groups but especially with our seniors. As you know residents of long term care homes and personal care homes were the very first Saskatchewan people to prioritize at the start of our vaccine rollout back in January. Mobile clinics visited every long term care home and personal care home in the province delivering not just first shots but also second shots,” Hindley said in a press conference on Thursday.