LYTTON, B.C. — The slow return of services to the Lytton area continued last week with the opening of a temporary primary care clinic.
Interior Health says the clinic is located on Lytton First Nation land at 1535 St. Georges Road, across from the Tl’kemtsin Health Centre.
Planning and construction of a permanent facility for the community is expected to take several years.
The former St. Bartholomew’s Health Centre was destroyed, along with most other buildings in the village, by a wildfire that swept through the community on June 30, 2021.
“The people living in Lytton and surrounding areas will now have access to health care in a modernized facility in their own community, as well as an Indigenous Patient Navigator who will provide direct patient and family support, including access to traditional ceremonies and healing practices,” said Health Minister Adrian Dix in a news release. “Re-establishing health services and connecting patients to a primary care provider has been a high priority and one of many steps in rebuilding Lytton after the devastation by wildfires.”
