Last year's health-care recruitment trip to the Philippines is paying dividends, says New Brunswick Health Minister Bruce Fitch. He said about 500 interviews were conducted during the four-day mission, which resulted in roughly 180 job offers made.
A mother now living in New Brunswick after moving from Ontario says she recently had to wait more than 12 hours to have her sick baby seen by a doctor at the Moncton Hospital.
New Brunswick has backed away from a controversial plan to merge all hospital testing laboratories into a single system with a main provincial lab at Moncton's Dr. Georges-L. Dumont University Health Centre.
A recent memo from the province's acting chief medical officer of health to parents has raised concerns about inconsistencies in how the education system handles forwarding Public Health information.