Interior Health Authority
Sun Peaks health centre nearing reality
KAMLOOPS – Sun Peaks is inching closer to a permanent health centre. Mayor Al Raine…
Health authority says it will try to retrieve more syringes from Kelowna needle exchange program
COMPLAINTS ABOUT DISCARDED SYRINGES ON THE RISE KELOWNA – The Interior Health Authority has promised…
Health officials eye controversial response to overdose deaths: Is the B.C. Interior ready for it?
OVERDOSES UP AS FENTANYL LOOMS; IS IT TIME FOR A SAFE INJECTION SITE IN THE…
Kelowna council to hear from Interior Health about safe injection site proposal
KELOWNA – With overdose deaths soaring in the city, Dr. Trevor Corneil, senior medical health…
No firm date for overdose tracking system for Interior Health
PROVINCE DECLARED PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY IN MID APRIL THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Interior Health is still working…
Interior Health voices concerns over Ajax Mine application
KAMLOOPS – The Interior Health Authority has laid out concerns over the application for the…
Enhanced health services coming to rural Interior Health communities
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – A program offering paramedicine to rural residents around the province is expanding to…
Spring runoff causing water quality problems throughout Southern Interior
HIGH WATER FLUSHING ORGANICS AND BACTERIA DOWNSTREAM INTO SOME WATER SYSTEMS THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Spring runoff…
Overdose deaths could stay high in Southern Interior
NUMBERS LIKELY TO GO UP BEFORE THEY GO DOWN THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Don’t expect the epidemic…
The B.C. Interior is on pace to smash last year’s record number of overdose deaths
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Overdose deaths in the Interior Health Authority, already at a record number after…
Premier says no plans to track deadly surge in B.C. drug overdoses
OVERDOSE DEATHS UP 40 PER CENT IN KELOWNA, 50 PER CENT IN VERNON LAST YEAR…
More Interior Health beds coming to help people recover from substance use
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – By this time next year, the Interior Health Authority expects to distribute 73…
Vernon mom raising alarm after teenage son asked to consent to immunization
YOUTH HAD BAD REACTION TO VACCINATIONS AS A CHILD VERNON – You might not think…
Tracking drug overdoses needs improvement to curb the ‘fentanyl crisis’: Kamloops doctor
'THERE'S NO WAY WE'VE SEEN THE END OF THIS' THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – When a community worker…
Contaminated water believed spilled into Shuswap Lake prompts advisory
VERNON – Precautions are being taken after thousands of litres of water polluted with glue…