Local paramedics receiving specialized training
Author of the article: Ron Grech
Publishing date: May 07, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Timmins paramedics Natalie Robitaille and Ryan Roy check their equipment while loading a stretcher into an ambulance at the Cochrane District Social Services Administration building. Cochrane District is one of nine regions across the province approved for a pilot program that will see paramedics extending services to palliative care patients. RICHA BHOSALE/The Daily Press jpg, TD
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Palliative care patients who call 9-1-1 will no longer have to be transported to hospital under a pilot project announced this week by the provincial government.
Author of the article: Thomas Perry
Publishing date: May 04, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 14 minute read • Scott Tam, environmental services manager for the City of Timmins, and Christina Beaton, the city s environmental coordinator, are seen here during a municipal hazardous and special waste day that was held in June 2018. They along with the city s energy consultant provided council with an update on the City of Timmins energy and sustainability programs last week Ron Grech/The Daily Press Photo by Ron Grech /Ron Grech/The Daily Press
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Council received an update on the City of Timmins’ energy and sustainability programs during its April 27 meeting.
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The Porcupine Health Unit area is caught in the undertow of a “third wave” of COVID-19 cases despite the recent rollout of vaccines.
More than 31,000 doses of vaccine for COVID-19 have been administered to residents within the local health unit since the start of January.
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However, Dr. Lianne Catton, local medical officer of health, conceded nearly half of the 644 cases reported by the local health unit since March 2020 occurred just in the last couple of months.
Author of the article: Letters
Publishing date: May 05, 2021  â¢Â May 5, 2021  â¢Â 3 minute read  â¢Â
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I am commenting on the article published in The Daily Press on April 21, 2021 â âRecent surge of cases would have put PHU area in lockdown.â
I would like to commend journalist Ron Grech for asking the necessary and legitimate question to Dr. Lianne Canton, medical officer of health on what the local health unit defines as a âhigh risk contactâ.
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Other health units have provided a definition describing it as having contact or being less than two meters from someone affected with COVID for longer than 15 minutes.