Sites coming to Nanaimo Regional General and Victoria's Royal Jubilee hospitals without government blessing
Doctors on Vancouver Island say they’re setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds of Nanaimo General and Victoria's Royal Jubilee hospitals this week because the B.C. government hasn’t lived up to its promise to set aside space for the sites.
She says the country is in the middle of the biggest public health crisis its ever seen, and the B.C. government has had a ministerial order that dictates that “overdose prevention sites can and should, and must be set up in any place where they are needed.” “We have been fighting for interventions like that, for such a simple thing as a machine that can give somebody a condom or a clean needle, if they’re going to do the harmful thing anyway,” Wilder said.
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