Last week members of the Town of The Pas administration and staff participated in naloxone training and some discussions around the situation with discarded sharps in the community. The goal of meeting with some of the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) departments was to create a plan to address education, as well as sharp disposal bins quantities and placements in the community.
“There were some initial discussions between the NRHA about sharps locations and pick up; as well as who would be managing and how it would be managed,” said Town of The Pas Mayor Andre Murphy. “It sort of tailed off due to the pandemic, election of a council and other stuff going on. Last week, we reinitiated that discussion with the NRHA, and had some representation from certain departments to talk about the issue of discarded sharps in the community. We needed to work together and find a solution to this, because there is a responsibility on all of us to make an improvement here.