The Grey Bruce Health Unit

Local COVID cases rising, outbreaks and other indicators show

ByOwen Sound Sun Times

The Grey Bruce Health Unit advised people Friday to guard against the COVID-19 virus, which it said has been spreading more lately than in previous weeks locally and across the province. Indicators of increased transmission include outbreaks in long-term care and retirement homes, hospitals, COVID-related admissions, test positivity rates and new case counts, a news […]

New data shows impacts of rising food costs in Grey-Bruce

ByOwen Sound Sun Times

The Grey Bruce Health Unit has released new statistics that shines a local light on something most people who have been to the grocery store of late already know – food prices are skyrocketing. New affordability data revealed on Tuesday shows families and individuals are spending more on food, which is leaving less in peoples’ […]

Free vision screenings offered to senior kindergarten students

ByOwen Sound Sun Times

Free vision screenings to help identify common impairments in young children are being offered to senior kindergarten students in Grey-Bruce. The Grey Bruce Health Unit is partnering with District A-9 of Lions Club International to provide free, in-school vision screenings for senior kindergarten students at Bluewater District School Board and Bruce Grey Catholic District School […]

GBHU issues Opioid Alert

GBHU issues Opioid Alert

ByBlackburn News

The Grey Bruce Health Unit has issued its third Opioid Alert this month, after receiving reports of five drug overdoses in the area within a five-day period.

Monkeypox vaccination clinics starting up in Owen Sound

ByOwen Sound Sun Times

The Grey Bruce Health Unit will hold clinics to vaccinate people against monkeypox beginning on Friday. Eligible individuals are now able to sign up for the by-appointment clinics, set to be held on Friday and again Wednesday at the Grey Bruce Health Unit in Owen Sound. Clinics will then take place biweekly on Wednesdays until […]

Six overdoses in four days prompts alert from health unit

ByOwen Sound Sun Times

Public health staff know of six non-fatal overdoses between July 31 and Aug. 3 in Grey-Bruce. The Grey Bruce Health Unit issued an overdose alert to announce the prevalence of overdoses and advise that all street drugs should be deemed highly toxic and fatal. Five of the six people who overdosed were unconscious and three […]

Owen Sound Sexual Health Clinic running again

ByOwen Sound Sun Times

The Grey Bruce Health Unit has reopened the Owen Sound Sexual Health Clinic after it was forced to close early in the COVID-19 pandemic due to staff redeployment. The clinic had a soft opening in the middle of last month, with the first full-day clinic on July 20. They will now run Wednesdays from 9 […]

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