The Vitalité Health Network and the Restigouche Regional Service Commission are creating two advisory committees bringing together local mayors, hospital staff and citizens to find solutions for recruiting and retaining employees.
The mayor of Caraquet is promoting a radical change to health care in northern New Brunswick to deal with chronic staff shortages: fewer hospitals offering specialized services.
A Campbellton woman is calling for the return of obstetric services at the local hospital and improved wildlife fencing along the highway after she hit a moose on her way to the Bathurst hospital for the birth of her first grandchild.
New Brunswick’s long-shrinking Restigouche County has recorded the smallest population decrease in three decades, leading some local leaders to believe the northern region has reached a turning point.