Nova Scotia is offering doctors $10,000 to take 50 patients off the province’s registry of people waiting for family physicians. The wait list has about 150,000 people seeking a primary care provider. Health Minister Michelle Thompson made the announcement today in Halifax, adding that the government will prioritize moving people with the most pressing needs…
NS Rolls out $10K Incentive for Doctors to Take on Sickest Patients From Wait List
Fire Department Called to Assist Dying Patient in NS Hospital With No Doctor
A Nova Scotia mayor says a patient died last week in his Annapolis Valley town after going into cardiac arrest at a hospital where no doctor was present. Mayor Sylvester Atkinson of Middleton, N.S., says volunteer firefighters were called to the Soldiers Memorial Hospital to attend to a patient because the closest doctor was 30…
Quebec Rejects Plea to Send Army to Northern Region Facing Health Worker Shortage
Quebec’s Health Department says it has rejected a request from officials in the northern region of Nunavik that the Armed Forces be brought in to help ease a shortage of health-care workers. Kathleen Poulin, a spokeswoman for Nunavik Regional Board of Health, says labour shortages in the health sector are hitting Nunavik particularly hard due…
Australian Police Officers, Health Workers Quit Over Vaccine Mandates
Police officers and health workers in Australia have resigned amid COVID-19 vaccine mandates issued in two states, local media reported Wednesday. At least 136 health workers in New South Wales and an unknown number of police officers in Queensland have resigned in the face of mandates on the two industries in the respective states. Health…
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