Health

Sask. hopes to soon resume some cancelled health services, including organ donation

The Saskatchewan Health Authority has released a plan that will include the resumption of a variety of health services that were paused across the province as healthcare workers were redeployed to hel...

Nov 09, 2021

Health Canada approves Pfizer booster for 18+ age group

Health Canada has approved the use of Pfizer's Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine for booster shots for everyone 18 and over.The boosters are to be given at least six months after a person received their seco...

Nov 09, 2021

Sask. woman in dire need of kidney blames government for surgery suspension

Jessica Bailey was getting ready to get her life-saving kidney transplant this past summer.She and her donor had gone through a year of testing and some unfortunate setbacks, but they had the green li...

Nov 09, 2021

One-hundred new cases of COVID-19 reported today, 20 in Northern regions

One-hundred new cases of COVID-19 were reported today by the provincial government.Sixty-two of the cases identified are among unvaccinated individuals with 29 among children between the ages of 0-11....

Nov 08, 2021

SHA employee vaccine program to start this month

This month, all Saskatchewan Health Authority employees will have to either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to a testing program on their own dime.In mid-October, employees had to decla...

Nov 05, 2021

Province reports 141 new cases of COVID-19, two deaths

The Government of Saskatchewan has announced 141 new cases of COVID-19 in the province.The new cases in northern Saskatchewan are located in the Far North West (two), Far North East (two), North West ...

Nov 05, 2021

Health authority looking to resume many healthcare services in November

The Saskatchewan government has set a 50-75-90 goal for workers who were moved to help with the COVID-19 fourth wave surge to go back to their original jobs, and for some services to resume over the n...

Nov 04, 2021

Province reports 60 new cases in northern zones, with 497 currently active

The provincial government reported 188 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday.Of the new cases, 127 are among unvaccinated individuals, 49 of which are children between 0-11. The new cases in Northern Saskatc...

Nov 04, 2021

Family brings frustrations over health slowdowns to legislature

Nearly one-year-old Helen briefly pulled at her mother's mask while Laura Weins and Graham Dickson spoke to media, explaining why they're so angry with the provincial government.The couple knew early ...

Nov 04, 2021

‘Worst is over,’ doctor says but adds health-care system still struggling

According to infectious disease physician Dr. Alex Wong, it appears that the fourth wave of COVID-19 - the deadliest wave of the pandemic yet - is waning."All of the leading indicators like test posit...

Nov 03, 2021