Posted: Apr 29, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 29
Patients looking for a new doctor in CBRM can wait years on the Nova Scotia family practice registry.(iStock)
Last month, the number of patients looking for a family doctor in Nova Scotia's eastern zone shot up nearly 36 per cent.
Most of those were in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, where patients wait on average more than 400 days to get a doctor.
Ron MacLean of Sydney has been on the province's family practice registry since he lost his doctor last year.
He said the walk-in clinic on Kings Road has been great, but he'd still rather have a family physician.