GUEST COLUMN – Is it time to ask for Canadian Forces medics?
By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES’ established medical services are collapsing. Emergency wards in their hospitals are repeatedly being [Continue]
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ROTHENBURGER – Kamloops has to up its lobbying game on the cancer clinic
A FULL-SERVICE CANCER CLINIC is in the works for Kamloops somewhere within the books of the provincial NDP government but it might be a long way off. Premier John Horgan [Continue]
HEALTHCARE – Regional hospital directors pepper IH rep with concerns
Interior Health got an earful this week from the Thompson Regional Hospital District board of directors about the state of healthcare in the region. The hospital district [Continue]
GUEST COLUMN – Why was the RIH emergency ward out of pillows?
By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist HELLO, Lynne Stonier-Newman here, a social marketing and communication consultant, and a B.C. historian and author. During the past [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Time to give control of Royal Inland back to the community
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ALMOST AS FRUSTRATING as the staffing crisis at Royal Inland Hospital is the way in which the issue has been politicized. Everybody from [Continue]
GUEST COLUMN – Hospital is on fire as staffing shortage in full crisis
The guest column is written by an anonymous nurse. THIS IS IN RESPONSE to the campaign of misinformation propagated by the administration of the Interior Health Authority. [Continue]
COLLINS – New hospital tower won’t be the ‘saviour’ for health care
IN TWO MONTHS, give or take, the new $417 million patient care tower at Royal Inland Hospital will open its doors. It will have some nice new bells and whistles. The tower is [Continue]
PETERS – The staffing situation at RIH is grim, but the goose is far from cooked
THE STORY OF THE MOTHER GOOSE laying her eggs outside the Royal Inland Hospital maternity ward must have been a welcome respite from all the doom and gloom for staff at the [Continue]
LETTER – Level of care at Royal Inland Hospital is unacceptable
To the patients of the Thompson-Cariboo-Shuswap, The Department of Surgery at RIH has been advocating, on your behalf, for many years to improve local access to surgical [Continue]
LETTER – Parking for Royal Inland Hospital staff still hasn’t been resolved
I saw your clip regarding the reinstatement of paid parking at RIH and that it forces “visitors and patients to pay for parking at hospitals creates another toll on [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Here we go again – paid parking at hospitals makes a return
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GET READY TO START struggling with pay parking machines at Royal Inland Hospital again. Free parking at all B.C. hospitals will end on March [Continue]
PETERS – To the staff at Royal Inland Hospital: Thank you
LIFE CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT. That instant comes for all of us — it just doesn’t have the common courtesy to warn us ahead of time. For me, that instant came on a [Continue]
STONE – After a tough year in 2021, let’s approach 2022 with optimism
By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson and PETER MILOBAR MLA. Kamloops-North Thompson AS THE BC LIBERAL MLAs for Kamloops and the Thompson Valleys, we thank you for [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Should the unvaccinated be ineligible to take up hospital beds?
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHEN FACTS AREN’T AVAILABLE, we’re pretty good at filling in the blanks ourselves. Thus it is with the multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 at [Continue]
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