Yes, thank you. I'd like to answer a number of different points the Member made. So starting with the wait times, the average wait time for a bed in a southern treatment facility is 23 days. We don't contract dedicated beds. 23 days is, in most cases, less time than people waited to get into Nats'ejee K'eh because Nats'ejee K'eh ran one month of women, one of men, one month of women, one month of men. So if you applied -- let's say you're a woman and you applied on week two, you would be waiting six weeks to get into Nats'ejee K'eh. So the wait times, if anything, are better than they used to be.
Nobody goes into a health centre and says they want to detox and told to go home and good luck to you. That is not a thing. Not every person detoxing requires a bed. For example, people who are detoxing from opioids need opioid antagonist therapy. And there are 50 plus people in Hay River taking that therapy. So it's a replacement for the opioid, and more in Yellowknife, another 50 in Yellowknife who are doing that.
So the detox required really depends on the substance that the person is addicted to. But nobody gets told good luck. That would not be an appropriate response from the healthcare staff. The other thing I want to mention is that we had a request for proposals out to have communities develop aftercare programs, specifically transitional housing programs for people to live in when they come back from treatment.
We had responses from four communities, including Hay River. The models are due by the end of this month. They're be reviewed, and then the models will be funded as pilots in the next round of business plan planning. That's my understanding. So we are trying to provide a robust approach, knowing that this is an area that people are having concerned about, especially where it is literally a life and death situation as it is with the poisoned drug supply in Hay River.