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Interior Health 2023
Interior Health butting out tobacco sales to minors; 7 stores fined this month
Interior Health is catching businesses red-handed selling tobacco products to people under 19. Seven fines…
Interior Health has closed Oliver’s ER for 20 hours this week
The emergency department at the hospital in Oliver was closed again overnight, the second such…
Bills adding up for Kelowna international student beaten in suspected racist attack
Despite assurances that he would not be charged for emergency room services, Gagandeep Singh, has…
There’s toxic cocaine in the Interior Health region
There have been multiple overdoses and fatalities related to a white substance being sold as…
Merritt residents rallying against Interior Health’s constant ER closures
People who rely on the hospital in Merritt are losing their patience with Interior Health…
Interior Health asks local governments to pause plans to ban open drug use in parks
Interior Health has emailed all municipalities in the Southern Interior, asking the local governments to…
Overdose warning issued in South Okanagan
Drug users in the South Okanagan are being warned of a strong batch of 'down'…
Penticton chamber wants city to go ahead with plan to ban drug use in parks
The Penticton Chamber of Commerce doesn’t agree with Interior Health’s recommendation to temporarily keep drug…
Petition demanding end to Merritt ER closures picking up steam
Merritt area residents are fed up with repeated closures at their local emergency department. A…
Salmon Arm woman claims hospital lab mix-up delayed cancer diagnosis
A Salmon Arm woman is taking Interior Health and her surgeon to court after she…
Ashcroft’s primary care centre closed on Saturday
The Urgent and Primary Care Centre in Ashcroft won’t be open tomorrow. Interior Health announced…
Prenatal clinic opens at Kamloops hospital
The Interior Health Authority just opened a midwifery clinic at Royal Inland Hospital. Patients without…
Kamloops care home resident sued by Interior Health over $120K unpaid bill
Interior Health is suing a senior care home resident over an unpaid $120,000 bill. According…
Maternity clinic in Kamloops isn’t closing
A maternity clinic at Royal Inland Hospital will start taking new referrals after it was…
Interior Health’s former top doc guilty of sexually assaulting boy in Alberta
Interior Health's former top doctor has been found guilty of molesting a young boy in…