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One woman said her niece would not have died of cancer had she been able to find a family doctor to help navigate B.C.’s health-care system in the years after she moved to the province in 2015.
Speakers advocated for better doctor pay, more money in the system, and for increasing the number of medical school seats to ensure a supply of new physicians to meet the existing shortage, and to address the baby-boom era retirement wave hitting the family doctor sector.
There was also pointed criticism directed at the relatively new Urgent Primary Care Centres (UPCC) system brought in by the government in 2018 to provide frontline health services for those without a family doctor.
