Siksika Health Services officially unveil local Our Healthbox [Video]

Siksika Health Services unveiled the new Our Siksika Healthbox situated at the Siksika Health and Wellness Centre, Sept. 26, as part of an initiative to improve access to wellness supplies.

The Healthbox is effectively a vending machine, accessible anonymously, is free of charge and is stocked with materials such as food, personal hygiene products, health promotion items, naloxone kits and sexual health items.

“The Healthbox has been in operation for about a month, but the press conference (Sept. 26) … officially launched the first Healthbox in Alberta,” said Rachael Edwards, a registered nurse with Siksika Health Services and the project coordinator for the Healthbox.

“Some people struggle to access food or personal hygiene products, so some of those items are in there – and then other things like health promotion items, recognizing that there is a segment of the population that uses substances, and we want to make sure that …