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A senior health official says emergency department visits for less serious injuries and illnesses are down 9.2 per cent as a result of measures put in place to find people alternatives to seeking hospital care.
Nova Scotia will continue to use virtual care into the future to ensure people without a doctor get access to primary care, a health official said Tuesday.
A former employee at St. Martha’s Regional Hospital, in Antigonish, N.S., inappropriately accessed the personal health information of 2,690 people, according to a news release from Nova Scotia Health.
The health authority says it will be sending letters to affected patients after their personal health information was "inappropriately accessed" at Saint Martha's Regional Hospital.
Nova Scotia's health authority says operations at a Halifax hospital complex will be back to normal as of Monday, after two water main breaks earlier this week.