Editing Whitehorse (section)

===Health care===
[[File:2017 RPAP visit to Whitehorse, YT (32661165213).jpg|thumb|[[Whitehorse General Hospital]] is the only hospital in the city.]]
The first "[[Whitehorse General Hospital|White Horse General Hospital]]" (WGH) was built in the downtown area in 1902 with a 10-bed capacity. During [[World War I]] beds increased to 30, 10 beds were added in 1943, then 20 beds in 1949, and an operating wing was added in 1951. In 1959 the hospital was rebuilt on the other bank of the Yukon River, across from its previous location, but decision making was still based in Ottawa (National Health and Welfare, Medical Services Branch).<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.whitehorsehospital.ca/wghabout/history/|work=About Us|publisher=Yukon Hospital Corporation|access-date=2011-03-26|archive-date=2012-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321194308/http://www.whitehorsehospital.ca/wghabout/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The downtown area has several private medical, dental, and optometry clinics.

In 1990, the Yukon Hospital Corporation (YHC) was created in order to prepare the transfer of powers regarding the hospital from the Federal Government to the Yukon Territorial Government. In April 1993 management of WGH was officially transferred to the YHC following a collaboration with the Yukon government and Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN, then CYI). Construction of the present building lasted from 1994 through 1997. Today Whitehorse General hospital counts 49 in-patient beds, 10 day-surgery beds, an ER department, OR suites and several medical imaging technologies.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}