Island Health stresses human connection after newest overdose fatality numbers
NANAIMO — BC Coroners Service released the latest overdose statistics and like clockwork news stories focused on the exceedingly alarming number of deaths.
Charmaine Enns, a medical health officer with Island Health, told NanaimoNewsNOW it’s an important release of information but the human element of the crisis can be overlooked amid the numbers.
“Every death and every overdose is a person that somebody loved, that loved other people, that was part of a family and their lives started long before this particular event.”
For the first six months of 2017, 24 people died of an overdose in Nanaimo.