EPISODE · Jan 21, 2021 · 3 MIN
Teenager's death on tugboat due to lack of training
from Daily News Update from CHLY 101.7FM · host Lisa Cordasco
New in this update:Wednesday COVID-19 updateIsland Health says two of the four COVID-19 deaths reported this month are related to the outbreak at the Chartwell Malaspina long term care home in Nanaimo. There have been seven residents and one staff member who tested positive for the virus since the outbreak was declared two days after Christmas. Meanwhile, there are 32 new cases of COVID-19 in the Island Health region today, bringing our active case count to 183. Province-wide, there are 500 new cases and there have been 14 deaths over the past 24 hours.Coroners Report: teenager’s death due to lack of trainingA Nanaimo teenager was killed on the job because of inadequate training, according to a coroner's report, released today. 18-year-old Aidan Webber died while working on a tugboat near Port Hardy in March 2019. He was crushed between the hull of a tugboat and a stanchion barrier, as the tugboat was docking. The coroner's report concluded a number of workplace safety violations by his employer, Sea Roamer Services, contributed to Webber's death. It said, "the training that had been provided to Mr. Webber was informal in nature and did not provide specific guidelines for docking safely." Webber was an accomplished BMX rider, who won Canada's BMX championship for junior men in 2018. He also represented Canada at the world championships in 2016.Word on the Street is…CHLY is joining Literacy Central Vancouver Island's "Word on the Street" Project. Starting this week, copies of our news update can be read on Literacy's "Bulletin Board." The "Bulletin Board" hangs in the window of Well Read Books on Commercial Street and is accessible to all. The group's adult literacy outreach coordinator, Rhiannon, says the idea came to fruition because of the pandemic."The Bulletin Board is a feature of that program that's dedicated as a communications space and a creative space for homeless individuals and other people who don't have regular access to the internet. Particularly since the beginning of COVID-19, at which time so many services shut down, including libraries and other points where people might be able to get on a public computer."—Rhiannon, Literacy Central Vancouver Island Adult Literacy Outreach Coordinator.Besides news, the bulletin board includes event posters, maps to social services, creative writing and a weekly joke. VIRL launches SOLAROSpeaking of literacy, the Vancouver Island Regional Library is helping students from grades 3 to 12 with their homework. It's launched a new, online resource called SOLARO. SOLARO is aligned with the BC school curriculum and provides practice tests along with study materials and can be accessed with your library card.
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New in this update: Tuesday COVID-19 update Seniors in BC continue to succumb to COVID-19, with 12 deaths reported over the past 24 hours. There are 465 new cases in the province, including 21 in the Island Health Region. 9 schools in Island Health are reporting exposures. The high number of cases among staff has forced the Duncan Christian School to close for the next two weeks, and the elementary school on the Snuneymuxw first nation is also closed as part of the community's shelter in place order. Immunization program will ensure a second dose There is more bad news today about the supply of the Pfizer vaccine. Now the federal government says it will not receive any doses of the Pfizer vaccine next week. Late last week, Ottawa said the shipments would be cut in half over the next month because Pfizer shut down part of its factory in Belgium to prepare it to manufacture more vaccines. BC's Minister of Health says although the reduction in vaccine deliveries over the next month is "disappointing," Adrian Dix says the province will still be able to immunize everyone who needs their second dose within 35 days of their first. "I think getting the second dose is important. It's important to both the strength of the program and people's confidence in the program. So we'll have to make adjustments. We'll have to see. Hopefully, this is s one-time interruption but what we can do in British Columbia is use the vaccine we receive and use it effectively and on vulnerable populations and that is what we're gonna do. And that means second doses are particularly important, it seems to me, in making our long term care facilities safer."—Minister of Health Adrian Dix. More details about the revised vaccine roll-out plan will be released tomorrow. Report contains heartbreaking stories from young people in mental health system Young people in BC are being involuntarily detained for treatment under the mental health act at an ever-increasing rate, but no one is able to say why. That's just one finding in a report, released today by BC's Representative for Children and Youth. The report is calling on government to amend the mental health act to ensure compassionate care for youth who are forced into mental health treatment. Jennifer Charlesworth says her report contains dozens of heartbreaking stories from young people, forced into mental health treatment that she says results in trauma. "They were really concerned and distressed by what had happened to them and they often said 'when does the healing begin?' You know this was an experience in sedation and medication and maybe some stabilization, but it was not an experience of helping."—Jennifer Charlesworth, BC's Representative for Children and Youth. What would help, according to the Representative, is for government to ensure involuntary hospital detention is truly the last resort, instead of it being the default position due to the lack of community-based programs. Charlesworth says young people should be involved in or at least informed about what mental health treatments they will receive and why. She says Health Authorities need to start collecting consistent data about who is being committed, restrained, sedated and how often. And, she's recommending a Mental Health Review Board be created that is trauma-informed and culturally sensitive.
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