Report reveals for the 1st time a breakdown of First Nations nurses, midwives in B.C.
A B.C. health authority says there has been no meaningful change to the proportion of physicians in the province who identify as First Nations, three years after a baseline report was first released.
The physician count amounts to 0.39 per cent up from 0.32 per cent in 2019 – about 16 additional First Nations physicians over a four-year period. Dr. Danièle Behn Smith, the deputy provincial health officer for Indigenous Health in B.C., said there are two issues with those numbers. Behn Smith said the percentages are slightly higher for nurses and midwives, but it still falls below two per cent overall for each.
In 2023, 10 midwives in B.C. were First Nations. That's 1.72 per cent of all 582 midwives registered with the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives.
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