Municipal leaders in northwestern Ontario are looking for some flexibility to how the government identifies doctor needs in rural areas.
Fort Frances councillor Wendy Brunetta is part of a northern physician task force.
She says the distribution of doctors is currently based on population.
“And when there’s a large increase in population whether it be because of the mine starting up or another economic boom to the community the demand on the physicians that were lauded for just increases exponentially,” says Brunetta.
Brunetta says the task force is developing a business case to show the benefits of supporting rural health care.
“We’re going to try and come up with some information that we can provide from the NOMA (Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association) board on possible solutions.”
