Province, Island Health not answering questions about staffing levels at new Victoria UPCC
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On Monday morning, the province quietly opened the new UPCC at Gorge Road Hospital in Victoria. By Wednesday, the word was out. At 11 a.m., the Gorge Road clinic was turning people away because it was at capacity.
Standing has been living in constant pain for almost a year.
“It’s not OK to have to live in chronic pain,” she said, through tears. “I feel like the system has just failed me.”
Like 100,000 others on southern Vancouver Island, Standing does not have a family doctor.
Wednesday morning, she and many others were turned away from the Westshore UPCC. She was told to try a different clinic or to go to an emergency room, which she has done in the past.
“(I've had) to go to emergency five times in the last year and then just to be told like, 'Sorry, you can’t see a specialist,’” said Standing.
On Monday morning, the province quietly opened the new UPCC at Gorge Road Hospital in Victoria.
Justin Henry was one of the first patients to use the facility.
“I can tell you it’s brand new and there’s nobody else in there but me,” Henry said Tuesday.
