When the B.C. government announced this week that construction had begun on the new St. Paul’s Hospital, it made no mention of an ongoing controversy involving medical assistance in dying.
St. Paul’s Hospital is overseen by the board of Providence Health Care—a Catholic organization that refuses to allow physician-assisted death in any of its facilities.
This is explicitly stated on the organization’s palliative-care referral form.
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