Prince Albert Daily Herald
Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone. (Brandon Harder/Regina Leader-Post)
On Thursday, the province announced a plan to further ease visitor restrictions in long-term care and personal care homes in alignment with the three steps of the recently announced Re-opening Roadmap. Mental Health and Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health Minister Everett Hindley said that the province made the decision because of the vaccine uptake in the province.
“Saskatchewan’s vaccination program continues to enjoy huge uptake across all age groups but especially with our seniors. As you know residents of long term care homes and personal care homes were the very first Saskatchewan people to prioritize at the start of our vaccine rollout back in January. Mobile clinics visited every long term care home and personal care home in the province delivering not just first shots but also second shots,” Hindley said in a press conference on Thursday.
Residents in care homes will soon be able to safely see more family members and visitors, thanks to Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 vaccination program. Beginning on May 30, when Saskatchewan moves to Step 1 of its Re-opening Roadmap, all residents of long-term care and personal care homes will be able to welcome an unlimited number of visitors, two at a time, indoors. Up to four family members or support persons at a time will be able to visit outdoors. Care home visitation will continue to be limited to compassionate reasons only until May 30, except for fully vaccinated residents of homes where 90 per cent of residents have been fully vaccinated and three weeks have elapsed since the last second dose vaccinations.
Care home visitation will continue to be limited to compassionate reasons only until May 30, except for fully vaccinated residents of homes where 90 per cent of residents have been fully vaccinated and three weeks have elapsed since the last second dose vaccinations. “Very difficult decisions were made to protect the health and safety of long-term care home residents and staff, and I know that visitor restrictions have been extremely challenging,” Mental Health and Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health Minister Everett Hindley said. “People miss being able to spend time with their loved ones, and nowhere is that more evident than in our care homes. Thankfully, due to the incredible vaccine uptake by the majority of the eligible population, we are in a position to make it easier for people to be able to visit their friends and family members residing in all of our care homes. But our work isn’t done. The road out of this pandemic runs through our vaccination cli
May 21, 2021
After Madison Campbell was sexually assaulted, she had an overwhelming feeling of not wanting to be touched by anyone, she remembers.
She didn’t want to tell her friends what happened, she didn’t want to talk to the police, she didn’t want to leave her dorm room ever again. In the hours that followed the crime, which occurred while she attended a study abroad program at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, she walked to a nearby pharmacy to buy black dye for her blond hair, and spend the following days and weeks rewatching Westworld.
Years later, it wasn’t just the assault that haunted her it was the fact that she had no evidence it ever happened. “I had no text messages, no photos saved. I didn’t save my clothes. I didn’t save anything. And so it would have been my word against his,” she told Quartz. “It’s really disgusting to me that I didn’t feel like I can get any sort of justice because I had I had nothing to prove that it happened.”
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