Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, doctors are hired centrally through the NTH SSA. The NTH SSA has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority to facilitate that. So the long story short is that it is an extremely competitive field at this point, and we are having trouble attracting doctors to come to the northern communities despite various incentives that we put in place, competitive pages, very handsome signing bonuses, and efforts that are made by human resources to attend -- I don't want to call them trade shows, but career fairs and that kind of thing where they can meet with people who are about to graduate and pitch them on the idea of coming to the NWT. So we are aware that there should be a doctor in Hay River. As I said to the Member yesterday or the day before, we consider seven doctors the full complement for Hay River. So it's very unfortunate that we're not able to attract people there. But that doesn't mean we've given up trying. Thank you.
Julie Green on Question 1455-19(2): Rabies and Vaccination of Dogs
In the Legislative Assembly on March 8th, 2023. See this statement in context.
Question 1455-19(2): Rabies and Vaccination of Dogs
Oral Questions
March 8th, 2023
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