The BC Nurses’ Union says it’s “disturbing” that physicians in Victoria and Nanaimo have had to take time away from their work and resort to erecting pop-up overdose prevention sites for hospital patients struggling with addiction.
Those services ought to be provided by the health authority, the BCNU said in a statement to the Times Colonist this week.
The BCNU, which emphasizes that it believes in harm-reduction practices for patients, has also supported nurses who have complained about walking through plumes of toxic smoke in hospital hallways as a result of a permissive attitude toward drug use in hospitals ...
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