Sensenbrenner Hospital serves residents of Kapuskasing and surrounding areas.
It took just one general practitioner’s sudden departure to destabilize the only obstetrics program in the 800-kilometre stretch between Timmins and Thunder Bay in northern Ontario.It only took just one general practitioner's sudden departure to destabilize the only obstetrics program in the 800-kilometre stretch of northern Ontario between Timmins and Thunder Bay.
Kwapis added there are other physicians willing to come in and help, but the hospital has no mechanism or compensation agreement in place to pay them. She said she's heard from several patients that the uncertainty over the future of the obstetrics program in Kapuskasing, combined with the lack of places to deliver safely outside of Timmins and Thunder Bay, has some Highway 11 corridor residents reconsidering whether they want to go through another pregnancy.
"There are many women who will opt to not relocate and just hope for the best when the time comes," she said, adding that helicopter transport outside of the community is not an option for someone in labour. Hearst, a small town of 5,000 residents located a two-hour drive away from Kapuskasing, had to shut down its obstetrics program in 2023 because of staffing and funding issues.
At least seven people have given birth while trying to reach an obstetrics service in the past year, according to Kwapis.
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