Doctors' offices are always busy but at Southbank Medical Centre in Ottawa's south end this week, it has been off the charts.
"We've been receiving hundreds and hundreds of calls, emails, patients coming in and we're shocked," said office administrator Debbie Walsh. "In the last 18 years I've been here, we've never seen this." "Last year, we had two new family doctors and it was never like this so I'm wondering…what's going on," said Walsh.
"There has always been a demand but I think post-COVID and during COVID that demand escalated and then doctors started retiring, doctors started getting sick, some doctors left… and that's when it just catapulted," said the clinic's associate medical director Dr. Anees Khan. "We need support from the ministry , we need support from the policymakers and if I may, I would say we need to get doctors in as quickly as possible, qualified doctors. There are so many foreign-trained graduates who are begging for licences."
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