Lake Cowichan residents provide feedback on the future of their health care during a July community meeting. <\/p>\n
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Cowichan Lake is about to get a whole lot healthier. <\/p>\n
Island Health confirmed last week that the roughly 6,500 residents of Lake Cowichan and surrounding area are just a few weeks away from their promised primary health care team. <\/p>\n
Enhanced primary health services through a primary health care team will begin providing programs and services in early 2014, the provincial health authority (formerly VIHA) announced in a press release. <\/p>\n
The team will be located at the Kaatza Health Centre, 58 Cowichan Ave. West and will begin delivering services early in the new year. <\/p>\n
A nurse practitioner has also been hired for the Cowichan Lake area. The nurse practitioner will begin practising at the Brookside Medical Clinic in the New Year. <\/p>\n
This year we went from three doctors to zero, and in the New Year well have two full time doctors and however many doctors work out of the walk-in clinic and then the nurse practioner, Lake Cowichan Mayor Ross Forrest said. <\/p>\n
The two new docs will have an international background, said the mayor. <\/p>\n
Were also getting the two doctors through a return of service program, where international doctors do a course through (Vancouvers) St. Pauls Hospital and two year course at the U of Victoria that allows them to practise in Canada, he said. <\/p>\n
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