The Government of Alberta has come up with a new plan to attract doctors to rural communities.
Schools from across the province, including the University of Lethbridge, will partner to have more doctors train in rural areas.
“The creation of a rural medical education program training centre at the University of Lethbridge in partnership with the University of Calgary will make a long-term difference in increasing the number of physicians practicing outside Alberta’s major urban centres,” said U of L president Digvir Jayas,Currently, there are no family doctors accepting patients in Lethbridge.
“We know that Alberta is currently dealing with a physician shortage and that the need is being felt more acutely in rural areas. Right now only 6.6 percent of Alberta physicians work in rural areas,” Sawhney said. An 11-year-old boy who was killed by two large dogs in southeast Edmonton on Monday has been identified as a Grade 5 student from B.C. named Kache.
Mounties on Vancouver Island are appealing for witnesses after a man reportedly assaulted a woman and exposed himself at a popular beach near Parksville, B.C.Taiwan's firefighting service says two Canadians were among a group of people stranded by rock slides in a gorge after the island's strongest earthquake in 25 years.More than a week after a stolen vehicle crashed into a home in Victoria, causing significant damage to the property, police are still searching for the driver.
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