140 suicide attempts over 2 weeks in Cross Lake MB

[EllieBC]

5. But how do you get the professionals there?

When my first daughter was in the NICU at BC Children's, I was amazed by the amount of families from places like Prince George or the Okanagan. I didn't realize that the at the time only level III NICU was in Vancouver (there's another now but it's in Surrey, which is also in the Vancouver area).

I asked one of the neonatology fellows why we weren't building children's hospitals or at least making sure there were high risk obstetricians, perinatologists, and level III NICUs in other parts of BC. The answer? "No one would want to go there. Everyone wants to be in the city where all the research is.".

Well, shit. If you can get doctors to go to Nowheresville, Kansas....why the hell can't we get doctors to not actually remote places like Kelowna? Or to our actually remote places? What are we saying about our health professionals if we admit they won't go???