Board of Health to debate making temporary injection site permanent
Posted Oct 30, 2017 08:06:23 AM.
Last Updated Oct 30, 2017 08:09:21 AM.
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OTTAWA — The city’s public health board will debate applying to the federal government for permission to make its temporary injection site on Clarence Street a permanent fixture.
The Clarence Street site was set up as a temporary measure, originally intended to only be open until an already-approved supervised injection site is completed at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre.
This afternoon’s Ottawa Board of Health will debate whether to apply to Health Canada for permission to permanently offer supervised injection services, even after the Sandy Hill site opens.
The discussion comes after an unsanctioned injection site, in a tent in a city park, says more people are using its services. Organizers with Overdose Prevention Ottawa tell Metro, about 100 people injected at the site both Friday and Saturday nights — more than double the average number of users when the tent was first set up, two months ago.
