CTV News: N.S. recruiting doctors, but vacancies persist: 'We will take as many as we can'
N.S. recruiting doctors, but vacancies persist: 'We will take as many as we can'
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"Gibson said Dartmouth faces a looming problem, with 40 per cent of doctors due to retire within five years.
'It's on our radar and it also highlights why we need a provincial approach to recruiting. At the same as we've got incentives to lure people to rural areas we've got Dartmouth sitting there with a large number of doctors leaving.'
NDP committee member Claudia Chender said while she thinks health officials are working hard to address doctor shortages, their efforts appear to be 'too little too late.'
'We are looking at another decade where not only will every Nova Scotian not have a doctor, but we'll have a serious shortage,' Chender said."