'Dying for doctors': Report cites concerns with health care in rural Saskatchewan
CTV
A report released this month cited hundreds of service disruptions over four years due to staffing shortages along with morale issues among workers.
Suzanne Kuchinka, mayor of the village of Macoun in southeast Saskatchewan, says it's been a struggle for years to keep family doctors because they retire or move elsewhere.
In Lloydminster, a city on the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary, Mayor Gerald Aalbers says doctors who want to work in his community are facing roadblocks.
These are some of the health-care issues facing small Saskatchewan communities.
A report released this month cited hundreds of service disruptions over four years due to staffing shortages along with morale issues among workers.
"We're dying for doctors," Kuchinka said recently in Regina at an annual meeting of municipal mayorsand councillors.
Aalbers said he knows a Lloydminster woman who's internationally trained to be a doctor but is unable to enrol in a Saskatchewan program that would help her practise in the city.
She's now moving to New Brunswick to work, he said.
