Doctors at Kelowna hospital accuse Interior Health of misleading the public
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The pediatricians accuse Interior Health (IH) of misleading the public by blaming the crisis on a nationwide shortage of physicians.
The calls to solve the doctor shortage crisis at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) are growing and getting louder by the day.
“There is hurt and there’s anger that it took so long and it took a crisis of this level,” said Dr. Alysha MacKenzie-Feder, a Kelowna, B.C., pediatrician who resigned from the hospital in 2024.
A group of more than a dozen pediatricians issued a public statement Monday, stating, “We are reaching out publicly to correct misinformation that has been circulating about the crisis.”
According to the group, there are only four pediatricians and one newborn specialist working at KGH, adding at baseline there should be 12.
The pediatricians have been unsuccessfully pleading with IH for their concerns to be addressed for years, saying they ‘foresaw’ the pediatric ward shutdown and tried to prevent it.
“These are not new problems and that we’ve been raising our voices for many years about the systemic issues here at KGH and how they’ve been impacting staff and safety,” MacKenzie we wanted to make sure that that was heard and understood that this crisis really was predictable.”
According to the group, seven pediatricians left the hospital in 2023 with many of them still working in the clinical setting in Kelowna.
The pediatricians accuse Interior Health (IH) of misleading the public by blaming the crisis on a nationwide shortage of physicians.
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