Funding has run out for interpreter services in Waterloo Region. The service helps new immigrants and refugees at family doctors and specialist visits.
Funding has run out for a service used by family doctors and their patients in Waterloo region. Organizations that support new immigrants and refugees with interpreter services for medical care says their work has to stop for now until they get new funding from the province in April.
The head of the Refugee Health Clinic at the Centre for Family Medicine in Kitchener says his clinic is no longer able to keep up with the number of patients he is requested to see, and is being forced to turn people away.
Guelph, Ont.-based family physician Dr. Andrea Chittle has launched a petition calling on the province to extend mask mandates in schools. The petition has quickly racked up more than 10,000 signatures.
Guelph-based family physician Dr. Andrea Chittle has launched a petition calling on the Ontario government to extend mask mandates in schools, and it has quickly racked up more than 10,000 signatures.