As the city of Yellowknife and the N.W.T. prepare for the more than 1,800 athletes, coaches and visitors who will be coming to Yellowknife for the Arctic Winter Games, more than 200 health care professionals are being organized to staff the Arctic Winter Games Clinic.
Registered nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses, doctors, massage therapists and physiotherapists will provide their services at the clinic each day from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. The clinic will be located at the Multiplex in Yellowknife. Each sport’s venue will have a radio dispatcher who will be in contact with a central dispatcher. They will be able to communicate with each other about an injury and dispatch an ambulance, if necessary.
I would like to thank the team leader, Dr. Ewan Affleck, at the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority for volunteering to organize the clinic. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank in advance all the health care professionals who will take time out from their busy schedules to make sure that these important services are made available. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
