Volunteers have set up makeshift mobile injection sites because legal sites are often full and drug users don’t want to wait when they need a fix.

Opioid crisis draws attention to Vancouver’s supervised drug-use sites, but Manitoba’s not interested – so far. With quotes from Anna Marie D’Angelo, senior media relations officer at VCH.

Lions Gate Hospital has sent a warning to 225 patients who had surgeries performed on them prior to November 14 as surgical instruments may not have been cleaned properly.

Vancouver Coastal Health is warning more than 200 patients after discovering a glitch in cleaning system for Lions Gate Hospital’s surgical tools.

VCH says VANDU has developed outreach teams of two people each that will walk the streets to guide peers to use safer injection techniques and pick up discarded equipment.

VCH has announced two new programs to fight the overdose crisis. Two-member teams from VANDU armed with naloxone and overdose prevention team on bicycles focusing on needle recovery calls.

Partnership with VCH and VANDU launched two new street patrols to deal with the fentanyl overdose crisis on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

VCH is partnering with Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users for peer outreach teams to guide drug users to use safer injection techniques and pick up discarded equipment.

Barbara Grantham, president and CEO, VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation is among 100 winners honoured by WXN’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada awards.

Dr. Brian Toyota, Head of Neurosurgery at UBC/VGH, is the only surgeon in Canada doing an innovative, high-tech treatment for brain cancer using a robotic laser.