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A provincewide cooling tower registry and regulations to prevent and quickly respond to legionnaires' disease outbreaks have not been implemented by the New Brunswick government two years after a previous outbreak in Moncton.
Roger Melanson (via Zoom) The provincial Liberals say New Brunswick’s health care system is on life support and the Higgs government needs to resuscitate it now. In a virtual news conference on Tuesday via Zoom, the official opposition says the shortage of health care professionals is worsening at an alarming rate. Interim Liberal leader Roger Melanson says existing health care professionals need to be retained and more need to be recruited. “What’s happening now is because conditions are so challenging and there’s such a lack of resources that people are burning out. And it’s putti...
Boost spending, improve preventive care, say health-care reps on solving crisis Representatives within New Brunswick's health-care sector say there needs to be a boost to provincial health spending and a pivot to focus more on preventive care to relieve pressures on the system now being felt with shortages of nurses and doctors. Social Sharing Paula Doucet with nurses union and Dr. Jeff Steeves with medical society weigh in on health-care woes Posted: Jul 20, 2021 5:50 PM AT | Last Updated: July 20 Representatives for New Brunswick's health-care sector say more health spending is needed, alo...
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick's vaccine rate slowed over the weekend, according to the province's COVID-19 dashboard. The number of second doses increased 1.2 per cent, while first doses only gained 0.1 per cent. But public health says those numbers may not reflect what actually happened over the weekend. "At times, it can take some extra time for vaccination clinic data to be reported to Public Health and displayed on the COVID-19 dashboard," said Bruce Macfarlane, department of health communications director. "I think we are experiencing something like this from the past weekend." ...
"I was blindsided," he said in an interview Monday. "I got an email from health inspector that they needed a meeting and they showed up Thursday and served us a letter to cease all tartare operations and take it off the menu." The letter said current regulations don't allow such foods to be served. "Our department was recently made aware that ground beef prepared as per the request of the customer and/or steak tartare is presently available at your food premises," the letter stated. "This practice must cease immediately as it is in direct violation of the New Brunswick food regulation."