Physicians and volunteers say they plan to run the sites for at least the first three days of this week to protest inaction on harm reduction services
Dr. Ryan Herriot unloads equipment as Victoria Police officers look over an unsanctioned overdose prevention site out front of the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C., on Nov. 18.A group of Vancouver Island addiction medicine physicians set up temporary unsanctioned overdose prevention sites outside hospitals in Victoria and Nanaimo on Monday to protest what they say is government inaction on plans for the harm reduction service.
Ryan Herriot, a family and addiction doctor in Victoria who helped organize the unsanctioned site there, said he and his colleagues opened these pop-up protest sites to spur action from the province and stop more illicit drug poisoning deaths“We’re calling on the B.C. government to fund this.
At least six doctors and dozens of volunteers were involved with opening Monday’s makeshift overdose prevention sites. About a dozen other doctors are supporting the action with funding and logistical help.
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