Pond Inlet health centre temporarily closed due to staff shortage
Health centre closed from Dec. 13-18; paramedics, virtual care still available
The Nunavut Department of Health says the Pond Inlet health centre will be closed from Dec.13 to 18. (File photo by David Venn)
A shortage of staff has forced the temporary closure of Pond Inlet’s health centre, the Department of Health announced Wednesday.
The closure runs from Dec. 13 to 18, it said in a news release.
Pond Inlet residents will continue to have access to virtual health-care and paramedic services during the closure. Paramedics will be on site for emergency care and calls to the health centre will be directed to virtual support services or other communities.
The department said delays are possible but recommended callers remain on the line and not give up.
It said support staff will be available by phone to assist with services such as filling prescriptions and medical travel.
The department also said the tuberculosis program and home-care services will continue to run with “minimal interruption.”
There is a doctor in town this week. Why is the health centre temporarily closed? Who is planning these things?!
It’s called go with the flow 🤣 we’re in Nunavut
Bottom of the barrel 😂
Read the article carefully, first sentence, A shortage of staff…
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No one is planning these closures. You gotta wonder why there are shortages.
The same reason every other business or service in the north is only open sporadically. Need i say more?
Why is there a shortage of staff? Are nearly all the southern nurses just going on Christmas vacation? [Hint: yes, they all flew out on a plane this week]
No one is allowed to be sick because of poor GN planning?
I’m not blaming the workers, I have an issue with the planning by the Health Department.
Local workers only show up to work when they feel like it so I guess these qallunaats learning a thing or 2 from locals 🤔 🤪 🤧 🤷
No enough motivation coming from within to take self sufficient roles to maintain the life of the community. Lack of education, lack of qualifications from the population. Too much dependence on outside. Until people start being responsible for these things, shortages are going to continue.
Need less weed, less booze, less internet time. then see the amount of energy and modivation go flying off the rails. Lots of graduates, clean rooms, hunted food and supper made then!
It’s the same in Nunavik, when it comes to short staff. It’s all about local shortage of involvement. If more people just use the paved avenues to pursue their education and use their resources many things would be not so bad. I was recently in kuujjuaq, saw a big building being constructed near the coop store. Workers from the south high on the building roof, proudly constructing, while local people flooded the coop ready for bingo beer night, and cars and trucks in a ditch for morning tow jobs. I’ll seen the Mohawk people across from Montreal who proudly constructing the iron over the mercier bridge, proudly displaying their work over the years, but compared that to Nunavik, and hardly a local could say as time goes: I worked on that building. Uselessness in Nunavik.
Yes I can understand what you’re saying , too much happy hourling. The thing is if it wasn’t booze or weed, it’ll be something else to direct their attention away from responsibility. Amazing how a society can neglect itself, and then wonder why suicidal youth, and issues with child welfare.