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GPs are on way to South Delta Delta Division of Family Practice has recruited eight doctors to address local shortage SANDOR GYARMATI
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There’s light at the end of the tunnel for South Delta residents unable to find a family physician. A lot of hard work and persuasion by the Delta Division of Family Practice will result in
eight new doctors coming to Ladner and Tsawwassen, which means thousands who have been looking for a GP without any luck will be accommodated. Delta Division of Family Practice executive director Geri McGrath told the Optimist this week that residents have been understandably concerned with
five doctors retiring this year and another physician moving overseas. In addition to recruiting eight doctors, the group has lined up 22 locums who can work parttime when a regular physician needs to take time off or goes on holiday. A few have already started
while others will be arriving in the next few months. “We have a wait list and this is how the new doctors are receiving their patients,” said McGrath. “We’re holding the master list for South Delta. Doctors usually first take in 50 to 100 patients at a time, so that’s how the new doctors are getting their
new patients unless, of course, they’re going into a clinic and just taking over files. “We estimate that by the end of this year, early next, everybody who’s on our list at this point should be attached,” she said. “There’s probably roughly 2,000 people.” DOCTOR: see Page 3
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