Project Update, KBRH Second Access Road on Hold
The City of Trail (the City), with input from Interior Health (IH), recently concluded a comprehensive engineering evaluation pertaining to the construction of a second access road to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH). Trail Council provided funding within the City’s 2019 Capital Plan to complete this evaluation...
WHO convenes coronavirus forum next week
In a press release issued today, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a forum to be held in response to the coronavirus outbreak. “WHO is convening a global research and innovation forum to mobilize international action in response to the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV),” the release began, and reads as follows: "Harnessing...
Seniors Advocate reports on elder-care facilities, finds need for change
A Billion Reasons to Care is the first provincial review of the $1.4 billion-dollar contracted long-term care sector in British Columbia. The review examined industry contracts, annual audited financial statements and detailed reporting on revenue and expenditures for the years 2016/17 and 2017/18. The BC Seniors Advocate ...
First case of coronavirus confirmed in BC
One case of the new coronavirus has been identified in BC. Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer (PHO), have issued the following joint statement regarding a case of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV): “Late yesterday, our BC Centre for Disease Control public health lab confirmed...
New research shows more people knowingly use fentanyl, points to importance of comprehensive response to reduce risks
Fentanyl use by people who use drugs in B.C. has doubled since 2015, and two-thirds of people are aware they’ve taken it, finds new research from the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). The findings point to the importance of taking comprehensive measures to reduce the risk for people who take the powerful opioid knowingly...
CBT funds trishaw project, regional age-friendly co-ordinator – and many more projects.
Thanks to Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), things are looking up for people of all ages in our region. Close to home, a CBT grant will help the Lower Columbia chapter of “Cycling Without Age” move closer to their goal of having electric-assist trishaws available in both Trail and Rossland. The group will ...
Opinion: Soothe your jangled nerves with a gift of music
Things to help us feel better are welcome during a season that can be hectic, stressful, demanding – and, for many, isolating and lonely. The demands of holiday entertaining can raise blood pressure levels and jangle nerves. Soothing music, designed to be calming and healing, might help, and is guaranteed to cause fewer...
Hospital Access Changes (with updated site map)
Here's a message from Interior Health for everyone who needs to go to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital: Patients and visitors are advised that the access route to Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) is changing. The walkway that runs around the construction zone will be adjusted effective Nov. 25. Signage will...
50,000 overdoses reversed with naloxone kits in B.C.
More than 50,000 kits containing the life-saving medication naloxone have been used to reverse opioid overdoses in B.C. In total, 175,022 naloxone kits have been reported distributed to people who use drugs and those who are likely to witness an overdose through the BC Centre for Disease Control’s (BCCDC) Take Home Naloxone...
It's autumn! Get your 'flu shot, and cherish your mucus.
MUCUS? Really? Yes – mucus is s good thing; it keeps us much safer from various kinds of infections. It traps small particles and helps isolate certain harmful microbes to keep them from clumping together and ganging up on our immune systems. Healthy mucus can keep harmful microbes from multiplying very fast in our bodies,...
