Founding Director and Conference Convenor, Mike McLoughlin says its clear there is a critical shortage of family doctors in BC and he adds walkin clinics are closing because they cant get physicians to staff their schedules.
BC is running short on family doctors.
That from the Walk-In Clinic of BC Association that's launching a petition calling on the government to train, recruit and retain more family doctors in the province. The petition will be launched Friday at the Annual Walk-In Clinics of BC Association Conference in Burnaby.
Founding Director and Conference Convenor, Mike McLoughlin, says it's clear there is a critical shortage of family doctors in BC and he adds walk-in clinics are closing because they can't get physicians to staff their schedules.
McLoughlin says, 45 clinics have shut their doors, or closed their access to walk-in patients over the past five years.
He says the petition will be distributed to walk-in clinics throughout the province and the campaign will run until the shortage of family doctors is addressed.