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Interior Health Authority 2018
Meningococcal vaccinations for teens continue throughout the Okanagan
OKANAGAN – Immunization of vulnerable teens will continue throughout the Okanagan health service area as…
Flu season in full flush throughout Interior Health Authority
It’s still early but flu season is in full swing throughout the Interior Health Authority.…
Kelowna General Hospital under siege from influenza
KELOWNA – The flu season is taking its toll on Kelowna General Hospital, not only…
Odour from ‘clean’ laundry shut down operating room at Kamloops hospital
KAMLOOPS – Interior Health says an odour coming from a batch of cleaned laundry was…
Influenza hitting residential care facilities hard across Interior Health Authority
KELOWNA – Procedures for dealing with outbreaks of influenza in residential care homes within the…
Interior Health is trying to figure out what Kamloops is doing right in the opioid crisis
KAMLOOPS – In the past two years, outreach and addictions services have increased across the…
Flu season half over in Interior Health Authority; confirmed cases way up
With half the season left, close to twice the number of cases of influenza have…
Two more overdose deaths as Interior Health repeats drug use warning
Two more overdose deaths have been added to seven reported on Friday by the Interior…
Overdose warning stemmed from fatal overdoses across Interior: Chief medical health officer
THOMPSON OKANAGAN – After nine fatal overdoses in the Interior Health region, an overdose warning…
Overdose action teams to hit the streets in Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon
Three Interior cities are amongst the hardest hit in the province by the ongoing opioid…
Expedited access to a specialist now available at Royal Inland Hospital
KAMLOOPS – A new outpatient clinic at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops should get you…
Chief medical health officer faces grim 2017 overdose numbers for Interior Health
After another year of ghastly overdose statistics for the Interior Health Authority in 2017, the…
Community groups to decide how best to spend up to $100,000 in funding for overdose response in Vernon
VERNON – People with lived experience in the opioid overdose crisis will be among those…
Flu epidemic over but other viruses popping up in Interior Health
With influenza season dwindling to a close, you would think the Interior Health Authority would…
B.C. Coroner recommends much closer regulation, control of drug treatment centres during opioid crisis
Closer regulation and control of drug and alcohol recovery houses and rehabilitation centres, as well…