Interior Health Authority:
“I am told, yes, things are back to normal at SOGH”.

Earlier on ODN

Reduced overnight emergency care at the Oliver hospital until at least the end of January.

Only patients with urgent conditions will be able to see a doctor between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. According to a release Friday from Interior Health, a shortage of doctors is to blame for the situation.
Dr. Curtis Bell said there will be no change for patients with urgent needs. But someone with symptoms like congestion or a sore throat – less urgent or non-urgent on the CTAS scale – will have to wait until morning. Bell said he has been assured that available staff “will be an augmentation of our staff” at the end of the month and that the emergency staffing levels will return to normal.