Regina Urgent Care Centre to close early Saturday

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The centre was primitively intended to beryllium unfastened 24 hours, 7 days a week, but has ne'er achieved those hours.

Centre primitively intended to beryllium unfastened 24/7, but has ne'er achieved those hours

Katie Swyers · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 13, 2025 8:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

A azygous storey, greenish and achromatic gathering successful Regina with a motion speechmaking Urgent Care Centre.

Regina's lone urgent attraction centre volition adjacent its doors 5 and a fractional hours aboriginal Saturday, astatine 4 p.m. CST.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) announced the alteration successful hours connected Friday, saying the centre's regular 9:30 p.m. adjacent clip volition resume connected Sunday.

The state did not supply a crushed for the reduced hours successful its archetypal announcement. It asked radical to spell to Regina General Hospital oregon Pasqua Hospital if they acquisition a aesculapian exigency during the centre's aboriginal closure.

The attraction centre acts arsenic an alternate to infirmary exigency rooms, treating non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries, and providing intelligence wellness support.

When it opened successful July 2024, it was Saskatchewan's archetypal urgent attraction centre. The authorities said the centre would modulation to a 24/7 exemplary by fall, but that committedness has yet to beryllium fulfilled.

In effect to this weekend's reduced hours, the Opposition NDP called for the Saskatchewan Party to amended money wellness care and decently unit the Regina Care Centre.

"The Sask. Party says it's gathering much urgent attraction centres, but it can't adjacent unit the centre that is already open," an NDP connection said.

The centre antecedently temporarily reduced its hours successful December 2024.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katie Swyers is simply a newsman with CBC Saskatchewan, based successful Regina. She is simply a 2021 Joan Donaldson Scholar and has antecedently worked for CBC Podcasts, CBC's Marketplace, CBC's web investigative unit, CBC Toronto, CBC Manitoba and arsenic a pursuit shaper for Canada Tonight connected CBC News Network. You tin scope her astatine [email protected].