Healthcare

In late 2020, Nelli Jakac’s Pharmasave Pharmacy caught fire along with other businesses on the block. Before the next year was out, she was back in business.

Provincial governments also saw a 5% decline, with only 58% saying they were satisfied with how their provinces are responding to the crisis.

I start each of my visits, after I listen to their reason for coming, with THE QUESTION: “What’s your situation with coronavirus, are you a recovered patient or are you fully immunized?”

Physicians across Canada are managing or planning for staff shortages as the omicron variant forces more to self-isolate.

Christine Elliott said more than 1,200 applicants had expressed interest in the programs that would see the internationally trained professionals deployed where extra help is needed, under the supervision of another regulated health-care provider.

Adult Quebecers who won't get vaccinated and don't have a medical exemption will be forced to pay a health "contribution,'' Quebec Premier Francois Legault told reporters on Tuesday.

Quebec's director of public health, Dr. Horacio Arruda, tendered his resignation on Monday, citing an erosion in public trust as the province grapples with record hospitalizations during a fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crown prosecutor Jackie Lane says the doctor sexually assaulted the women during medical exams he did as a gastroenterologist.