The federal government announced it would reinstate the role in February in recognition of the central role nurses played in keeping healthcare afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, three hospitals in government-controlled areas of the country's war-torn Donetsk region had facilities to care for premature babies.
For years, Dr. Ilhab Kamel had worked three hours away Estevan, where his physician wife practices. When he thought about going to work in Saskatoon, she convinced him to change course.
Dr. Brian Nadler was initially charged with first-degree murder last year in the death of 89-year-old Albert Poidinger at the Hawkesbury and District General Hospital.