A mobile phone app launched two years ago has continued to gain popularity among people who use drugs and those who support them, and is successfully preventing toxic drug deaths in B.C.

“The Lifeguard Digital Health App has a proven track record of keeping people safe and is an important part of our government’s response to the toxic, unpredictable illicit drug supply,” said Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson.

Dr. Ilona Hale, on a ridge above 12 Mile Creek near Golden.

People in Kamloops and across the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap region are invited to an open house at the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower at Royal Inland Hospital on Saturday, June 25 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Interior Health is hosting the open house to allow the community to view Kamloops’ new hospital tower, before it opens to patients on July 18.

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A healing circle

Everyone deserves to be heard, and to feel safe and understood, but it’s clear from the In Plain Sight Report this doesn’t always happen for members of B.C.’s Aboriginal communities.

Mother Nature is glorious but fickle – we never know what she is going to hand us.

Folks in the Chilcotin are known to be resourceful and resilient, but our mettle was significantly tested during the massive firestorm of 2017, when three major complexes - the Plateau, Hanceville and West Chilcotin - burned 8,193 square kilometres. During the 2021 fire season, this area was under threat again as two significant wildfires at Big Stick Lake and Hotnarko Creek kept people living along the Highway 20 corridor on high alert.

Interior Health is celebrating a significant milestone in the provision of medical care in the North Okanagan, as this year marks the 125^th anniversary of Vernon Jubilee Hospital (VJH).

In 1897, the original “Cottage Hospital” opened in a house on 28^th Avenue and health-care teams have provided treatment and care for people throughout the region ever since.

Interior Health is adding new evening and weekend vaccine clinics to provide easy access for parents to get their kids vaccinated against COVID-19.

“Vaccines for children are safe and effective and I encourage all families to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19,” said Dr. Carol Fenton, medical health officer with Interior Health. “Our vaccine rates for children are lower than we’d like to see in some areas. Getting vaccinated now will help protect your children throughout summer activities.”

Michelle cross-country skiing at Dawn Mountain

Name: Michelle Plenderleith (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Operating Room Booking / Nursing Unit Clerk 
Years of Service: 7
Worksite: Golden & District Hospital
Community: Golden
Ancestral Territory: Ktunaxa
Advice to live by: Let go of the small things.

Due to limited physician availability, residents of the 100 Mile House area are advised that the Emergency Department at 100 Mile District General Hospital will be closed from:

• 7 p.m. on June 15 until 8 a.m. on June 16

Residents are advised of the following when the emergency department is closed: