Doctor shortage hits town of Hay River, Northern Canada
The town of Hay River, N.W.T., is scrambling to fill a month-long shortage of doctors and nurse practitioners after two
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Relying on short-term doctors may harm health care in Canada’s eastern Arctic
Nunavut, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, suffers from a shortage of permanent or long-term doctors and nurses and if the territory
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Canada: Inuit elder has waited months in southern city for access to home dialysis
A Nunavut (eastern Arctic) elder and former MLA with kidney failure says he feels like he’s being held hostage in
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Northwestern Canada not prepared for aging population, doctor says
Yukon is not doing enough to prepare for an older population, according to the territory’s top doctor. Brendan Hanley, Yukon’s
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Inuit class-action lawsuit to allege racism in Canada’s health-care system
Lawyers known for their representation of Indigenous northerners are preparing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Inuit who have faced
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Laptop with health data stolen from Northern Canadian gov was unencrypted
This is the final story on the stolen laptop files. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. The Northwest Territories government’s
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Proposed cuts to Alaska’s Medicaid raises concern for health centers, hospitals
Medicaid is one of the most expensive parts of Alaska’s budget. And Gov. Michael Dunleavy is proposing a huge cut
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Northern gov employee given privacy training weeks before laptop with health data stolen
This is part 2 of three stories on the stolen laptop files. Here’s part 1. Part 3 is scheduled for next
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Thousands of people’s health data on laptop stolen from Canadian territorial gov last year
This story is Part 1 of 3 on the stolen laptop files. Part 2 is scheduled for Tuesday and Part
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Canada’s Nunavut territory projects small deficit in $2.2B budget
As Nunavut (east-Arctic Canada) heads towards its 20th birthday, the territory’s budget is putting a lot of small chunks of
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Arctic Canada: Wrongful death lawsuit settled in case of Nunavut’s Baby Makibi
A settlement has been reached in the wrongful death lawsuit against the government of Nunavut and a former nurse in
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Finland’s elder care needs funding boost to meet Nordic standards: researcher
Finland’s elder care system has been underfunded for a long time, according to the head of the Centre for Excellence
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Community in Arctic Canada holds suicide prevention meetings following deaths
Officials with Nunavut’s Health Department are in Baker Lake this week for a series of suicide prevention meetings, following three
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No opioid crisis in Canada’s eastern Arctic
Fentanyl has made it to Nunavut, but officials say that unlike the rest of Canada, it’s nowhere near a crisis.
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Nurses in Arctic Canadian village ‘exhausted’ by flu season and staff shortage, patient says
Patients in Arviat, Nunavut (Canadian east-Arctic), say nurses in the community are overworked and overwhelmed as they deal with a
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