The province says the construction of a new six-station dialysis unit at the Glace Bay Hospital is expected to begin this spring.
It says it’s approved funding for construction and a request for proposals will be issued next month.
Dialysis patients now have to go to the Regional Hospital in Sydney.
The Health Department says about 24 patients from the Glace Bay area are expected to use the new dialysis unit.
Funding for part of the project is coming from the estate of the late Thomas Peach from Glace Bay, who left 1.9 million dollars to help establish dialysis services in the community.
The Health Department says projects to build new dialysis units, or expand existing ones, are now underway at six hospitals across the province.
The Regional Municipality has issued the tender for this year’s heavy garbage pickup.
The municipality says the pickup will start on an undetermined Monday between April 29th and May 13th.
The tender opens today and closes at 3:00 in the afternoon on April 19th.
It says all items placed by the road for pickup must be collected except for electronics that can be recycled, car and truck tires, propane tanks and cylinders and used paint.
A court hearing was adjourned today for a former nurse facing a charge of forgery after the death of a man on the grounds of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.
48 year-old Valerie MacGillivray was scheduled to have a trial date set today, but the hearing was postponed until April 1st.
41 year-old Tammy Carrigan-Warner from Sydney River has also been charged with forgery in the case and is due back in court next month.
Both have been fired from their jobs.
The 79 year-old man was a patient at the hospital and was found unconscious on the sidewalk outside the building in February of last year.
Police say documents on the man’s status at the hospital were forged.
A Coxheath man is facing a total of 24 charges after Regional Police say two people were assaulted at a Sydney pizza shop on Friday night
Police say they arrested 39 year-old Aaron Curtis Mickey after getting called to Alexandria’s Pizza on Charlotte Street.
He’s being accused of driving to the store in a stolen vehicle, assaulting two women inside the store and then threatening to steal another vehicle.
Police say Mickey was arrested as he tried to run from the restaurant.
The two women were treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Mickey appeared in court for arraignment today, and is now on remand while he awaits a plea hearing on April 1st.
A former nurse facing a charge of forgery after the death of a man on the grounds of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital is due back in court today.
48 year-old Valerie MacGillivray from Glace Bay is scheduled to set a trial date.
41 year-old Tammy Carrigan-Warner from Sydney River has also been charged with forgery in the case and is due back in court, next month.
Both have been fired from their jobs.
The 79 year-old man was a patient at the hospital and was found unconscious on the sidewalk outside the building in February of last year.
Police say documents on the man’s status at the hospital were forged.
