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Saskatchewan has the fourth highest active COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 people in the country, as of numbers updated Wednesday. Manitoba has the highest with 414 active cases per 100,000 people, Alberta in second with 200, Quebec has 135 and Saskatchewan sits at 116 active cases per capita. North Dakota is 12 times Saskatchewan’s rate at 1,371 active cases per 100,000 people.…

The resources of Saskatchewan’s health care system are maxed out, says the president of the provincial nurses union, who has been fielding calls from exhausted members. “The hospitals are overcapacity and when they’re overcapacity, all of that lands at the feet of physicians and the nurses and the rest of the health care team to manage,” Saskatchewan Union of Nurses…

With Saskatoon’s intensive care units now over capacity, Saskatchewan is “losing the battle” against the novel coronavirus, says a growing group of more than 350 doctors who are asking the province to do more to curb the rising caseload. When the open letter to Premier Scott Moe, Health Minister Paul Merriman and chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab was first made…

Saskatchewan unions representing registered nurses and other health care workers say the province should “take a step back” in order to manage a rising wave of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory said the number of new cases has reached a point where some health services that have been resumed since March should consider…

SASKATOON -- The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) is sounding the alarm about alleged staffing shortages and overcrowding at hospitals in the province. Earlier this month, members of the ICU at Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital moved to the former pediatric ICU. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said the old pediatric ICU has “more space and can accommodate more…