The community of Hudson’s Hope has been significantly impacted recently by Northern Health’s failure to solve a doctor and nursing shortage.
The inability to attract enough new healthcare workers has plagued the region for the past five years.
The health authority said that services at the Emergency Department at the Hudson’s Hope Health Centre were unavailable on March 6th and didn’t re-open until March 9th.
The health authority announced the closure on social media and on its new Emergency Department Status webpage.
It comes after the Emergency Department was closed for a 10-day stretch starting on February 17th.
Hudson’s Hope Mayor Travous Quibell said at the time, “it is always deeply concerning. It takes what should be a few minutes for paramedics to respond, now to just over an hour to get to Chetwynd or Fort St. John,”