Van will be available in downtown Kelowna and Rutland
Interior Health is offering overdose prevention services in Kelowna using a mobile unit.
It replaces the current fixed overdose prevention site on Ellis Street which is now closed.
The motorhome will offer a place where up to four people can use drugs safely and be monitored and treated if they overdose – staff will also provide naloxone and other harm reduction supplies.
A mobile unit is different from a supervised consumption site – staff will not be supervising drug-use until Health Canada approves an exemption for a supervised consumption site.
The van will be available in downtown Kelowna at 455 Leon Avenue in the parking lot behind Outreach Urban Health, Tuesday to Saturday from 12:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
And will also be at 125 Park Road, beside the Rutland Community Dialysis Centre, Tuesday to Saturday from 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm.
