Number of people without a family doctor who showed up to a Halifax-area ER more than tripled in five years
“We’re in a situation where a lot of our walk-in clinics are full for the day 10 minutes after they open. They have a lineup at the door before they open, and all those appointments get filled,” said Claudia Chender, MLA for Dartmouth South.
‘They can’t open at certain times because they don’t have doctors to staff them. The whole system is deeply, deeply stressed and of course the victims of that are the residents of Dartmouth.’
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‘We have been lucky to have a few doctors set up shop in Dartmouth, but the reality is it’s sort of just a drop in the bucket of our need because as we know a lot of the doctors retiring had enormous caseloads and it takes at least two doctors to replace every one, Chender said.
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