Tag Archives: Health
Big Bear Child & Youth Advocacy Centre support moving forward, with practice model in Kamloops to begin in January
KAMLOOPS - In order to help children who have been abused or mistreated in Kamloops find the support services they need, a trial run of a new centre proposed to keep everything under one roof will be ...
Nov 27, 2019 (Image Credit: Big Bear Youth & Advocacy Centre / Facebook)
More people utilizing public flu clinics across all of Interior Health
KAMLOOPS - More people are choosing to get a flu shot this year in the B.C. interior. Interior Health has held two major flu clinics in Kamloops so far and has seen an increase of around 1,000 people ...
Nov 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Kamloops advocacy groups speak out against gender-based violence
KAMLOOPS - Gender-based violence is an epidemic throughout communities all over the world. From November 25 to December 10, there's an international campaign called the 16 Days of Activism Against Gen...
Nov 26, 2019 Image Credit: Government of Canada
Violence against women underreported in Canada
KAMLOOPS - Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It's a global call for people to take a stand against all forms of violence on a daily basis. In Kamloops, many wom...
Nov 25, 2019
100 Mile House area woman pushing for smoother discharge process for emergency rural patients at RIH
100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - A woman recently discharged from Royal Inland Hospital is raising concerns around how out-of-town patients are sent home. Olivia Fletcher was brought to Royal Inland Hospital th...
James Peters Nov 22, 2019 Pictured: Olivia Fletcher, holding a taxi voucher. (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Seniors practice balance, mobility and strength through gymnastics program
KAMLOOPS - Every Thursday, a group of seniors gather at the Kamloops Gymnastics Trampoline Centre. They are six weeks into a ten-week Seniors Can Move program, which has come to Kamloops thanks to a g...
Nov 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Jill Sperling
Kamloops support group working to spread understanding during Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Month
KAMLOOPS - November marks Crohn's and Colitis Awareness month, and the local support group in Kamloops hopes people will take the time to learn more about the chronic condition. According to Crohn's a...
Nov 15, 2019 (Image Credit: Crohn's and Colitis Canada)
ICCHA/WISH raising money for new hospital equipment on journey to establish a local Cath lab
KAMLOOPS - The ICCHA/WISH Foundation is taking steps to establish a catheterization lab in Kamloops. The foundation took on the task of fundraising for cardiac services at Royal Inland Hospital and wa...
Nov 15, 2019
Abbotsford brain cancer victim candidate for expensive U.S. clinical study
ABBOTSFORD - A fundraising effort in support of an Abbotsford father's battle with brain cancer has reached its halfway mark. But time is running out to raise the remaining funds for 45-year-old Ryan ...
Nov 14, 2019
Report predicts drug resistance likely to kill 400,000 Canadians by 2050
VANCOUVER - Superbugs are likely to kill nearly 400,000 Canadians and cost the economy about $400 billion in gross domestic product over the next 30 years, warns a landmark report. An expert pane...
Nov 12, 2019
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