Fort Saint James Mayor Bob Motion is gravely concerned over the number of overdoses in the community.
An alert was issued by the district’s RCMP Detachment this week after emergency crews responded to numerous overdoses.
Crews attended two calls for service in one day at the same house, resulting in one death.
The matter is now under investigation by the BC Coroners Service.
Motion told Vista Radio an issue like this hits pretty close to home for rural communities like theirs.
“You might not know that person directly but you are only one person removed from someone who knew that person. That’s how it hits us a lot harder in a place like this because in a city like Prince George there are more people obviously and less of a direct connection.”
Training for newly-recruited PHE Assistant Engineers
A six-day induction training programme for 23 newly recruited Assistant Engineers under Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) is being organized at the Key Resource Centre (KRC), Jal Jeevan Mission PHED Assam in Guwahati from the February 19 to 24.
| 20 Feb 2021 4:23 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: A six-day induction training programme for 23 newly recruited Assistant Engineers under Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) is being organized at the Key Resource Centre (KRC), Jal Jeevan Mission PHED Assam in Guwahati from the February 19 to 24.
The training programme aims at building new work culture which is based on transparency, performance and productivity and also providing a forum to exchange and stimulate new ideas, stated a release. The training will focus on giving a concept of rural water supply system and sanitation activities of the department among the new employees attending the training. It will also focus on
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BC Emergency Health Services says paramedics in Fort St. James have received 33 calls in six days with COVID-19 related concerns.
That s one of the reasons why its Major Incident Rapid Response Team was called to the northern B.C. community, as well as the Nak azdli Whut en First Nation, on Wednesday (Dec. 9) after a 40-case surge in cases for the virus.
Howeverm Northern Health says not all of the individuals who tested positive will require medical care or transport.
In an email to PrinceGeorgeMatters, spokesperson Shannon Miller says, depending on the situation this week, the unit is set to stay in the district for a maximum of four days to help with inter-facility transfers from hospital to hospital.