Nunavut gets $35 million from Ottawa for health care services
By Emma Tranter · CBC News Money will go toward elder care, increasing health care staff Nunavut will get $35.6 million over
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Dental care increases medical travel, need for beds in Yellowknife
By Dez Loreen · CBC News Boarding home has seen 50 per cent increase in patients since last year Dental patients from
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N.W.T. spent $5.2M last year on agency nurses, who are paid more than local nurses
Agency nurses considered unionized, so union questions apparent discrepancy An employee of the N.W.T. health authority says the territory’s use
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No plans for hospital lay-offs as COVID-era funding ends, N.W.T. health minister says
The Northwest Territories health minister says her department is not planning to lay off any staff as a result of
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N.W.T. organizations, community governments get funding boost for health programming
By Mah Noor Mubarik · CBC News N.W.T. organizations and community governments get a boost of funding for health programming Many community
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How the legacy of Canada’s tuberculosis sanatoriums haunts public health efforts in Pangnirtung
Sixty-five years ago, tuberculosis left Nancy Anilniliak with an invisible scar. In 1958, when she was five, Anilniliak was taken
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Nunavik health board issues smoke alert for two communities
The health board in Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec, issued a smoke alert for two communities on Tuesday
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Here’s what Yellowknife plans to do if a wildfire ever hits
It’s not flashy and it doesn’t get into nitty-gritty details, but Yellowknife city officials say their framework for how to respond
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Two would-be doctors want to volunteer at the Cambridge Bay health centre, but can’t
Couple did medical training at Dnipro State Medical University in Ukraine in 2018 Two foreign-trained medical professionals living in Cambridge
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Better dental care means dealing with historical issues, says Indigenous dentist
‘It’s an oral health crisis here in Canada that we need to voice a little bit louder’ says Dr. Sheri
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Staffing woes mean reduced health services in Yellowknife
Lab at primary care clinic closed until July 4 Some health services in Yellowknife are reduced and patients are being
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COVID-19 pandemic stalled progress on eliminating tuberculosis among Inuit: officials
By Emily Blake Plan to eliminate TB by 2030 still in place Nunavut’s health minister says the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted
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Syllabic eye charts: Doctors’ groundbreaking approach for Indigenous patients
Inuit in northern Quebec are now able to take vision tests using the Inuktitut writing system, after two Montreal doctors
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Health services reduced in 6 Nunavut communities amid staff shortages
Health department says more than two dozen indeterminate positions are vacant in those communities Health services have been reduced in six
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‘A little hope’: Residents of Mayo, Yukon, hope to forge path forward through drug crisis
People in Mayo, Yukon, say they came out of a town hall meeting Monday night with some hope and faith
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