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BOIL WATER ADVISORY

BOIL WATER ADVISORY

Public Health Advisory for the Town of Hay River Boil Water Advisory – Effective Thursday, May 19, 2011

GNWT hangs up on health hotline

The GNWT has discontinued the use of their toll-free health care information hotline due to a lack of use. The NWT Health Line service was cancelled on Friday after six years of use. Residents can no longer call the 1-888 number to receive health-related information from a nurse 24 hours a day, seven days a [...]

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Hay River nurses are ‘jacks of all trades’

You might have figured this out by now – the nursing desk at the H.H. Williams Memorial Hospital is one of the busiest places in Hay River. And it doesn’t have anything to do with hours – there’s a lot of activity going on whether it’s Sunday, a national holiday or the middle of the [...]

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Hands off supplementary health, seniors say

A plan by the Government of the Northwest Territories to have high-income earners pay for a portion of their supplementary health care in order to open the program to low-income earners was resoundingly denounced during a town hall meeting in Hay River on Thursday evening. A crowd of approximately 60 people, mainly seniors, voiced their [...]

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