Medical society joins call for stricter rules on vape products
The New Brunswick Medical Society is backing efforts by Health Canada to reduce the amount of nicotine manufacturers are legally allowed to include in their e-cigarette products.
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About 40 per cent of New Brunswick in grades 7 to 12 say they ve tried vaping
Posted: Feb 26, 2021 9:29 PM AT | Last Updated: February 27
Vaping products are currently allowed to contain up to 66 mg/ml of nicotine, according to Health Canada.(CCO/Pixabay)
N.B. electronic medical records system rollout botched, says auditor general
The New Brunswick government botched the rollout of an electronic medical records system for doctors, leading to $26 million of provincial and federal money being spent on a tool that fewer than half the province s physicians adopted.
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SAINT JOHN, N.B. Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a mask has become second nature for most New Brunswickers, but the city of Saint John is looking to clear up any confusion when it comes to what to do when you re outside. It has issued more than one reminder this month alone, that wearing a face covering in the outdoors is mandatory. In an email, city spokesperson Lisa Caissie writes with the changes we have experienced in recovery levels over the past month,we felt as though some people may not have been aware of the requirements to wear a mask in outdoor public spaces, such as busy sidewalks, trails, and parks.
The province’s top doctor says the UK Variant of the COVID virus has now been confirmed in New Brunswick.
Dr. Jennifer Russell says two are in the Saint John region and one is in the Miramichi region. Two are related to international travel and one to travel elsewhere in Canada.
Russell says modelling shows if the 567 COVID-19 cases diagnosed last month had been the more-easily spread variant, we could have had over 6,000 cases by the end of this month. But they say the people are in self-isolation and they are hoping they caught it in time. Premier Blaine Higgs says the province is introducing new travel restrictions and anyone entering the province must self-isolate for 14 days and if they do so in a home with others, all residents of that must also quarantine.
Horizon Health Network has told employees they need to do a better job of following rules around “hand hygiene,” according to internal memos sent to staff and physicians by the health authority.