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Mom sadly left us but happily stepped into Heaven when God took her hand. Mom was born in Restoule, Ontario, one of seven children of Thomas and Blanche Birch. She attended Jumbo Gardens Public School and then Port Arthur Collegiate. After leaving school in grade 10, she married Bob Austin and they had 8 children. Once the children were older, Mom worked as a librarian in the school system then worked in the Optical Dispensary at the Port Arthur Clinic. Following her work at the clinic she worked as the Secretary/Receptionist for the Public Relations Department of the Salvation Army. Her final job before retiring was at the City of Thunder Bay Police Department in the Communications Centre where she spent 13 years. She also volunteered as a Girl Guide leader for several years enjoying her time there immensely. ....
Patients had also suffered because of the knock-on effect of fewer appointments. In the last year permanent and short-term vacancies increased from 88 to 103 across rural GP practices, Davidson said. Meeting New Zealand medical council registration requirements, finding flights, getting a room and paying for MIQ were putting many potential recruits off. Supplied/Stuff Ōpunake Medical Centre owner and GP Nick Loveridge-Easther, left, hasn’t been able to fill a full-time role usually held by an overseas doctor. He took up an offer by his father Graham Loveridge, right, who is a semi-retired GP from Nelson, to help fill the gap for a few weeks. The doctors are pictured with one of their patients. ....
There s a just a general anxiety amongst already burnt out GPs in those areas, he said. COVID-19 modeller from Te Pūnaha Matatini, Shaun Hendy, said people s lack of access to their regular doctor was a worry because it could make them more reluctant to get a test. If they re out of their home town they may not know where the testing centres are. And if they re out at the beach those testing centres might be a long way away, he said. The big music festivals and concerts were a worry too. If a case did make it through isolation of quarantine and then a border worker picked it up and went to one of these events then that is a scenario where we could get wider spread, Professor Hendy said. ....
Photo: 123RF The virus was surging in many countries overseas making it more likely to arrive at New Zealand s borders. Chief executive of the Rural General Practice Network, Grant Davidson, said small town doctors were already feeling the pressure - especially after a tough year. They were worried about the load on their small practices as people headed to baches, he said. There s a just a general anxiety amongst already burnt out GPs in those areas, he said. Covid-19 modeller from Te Pūnaha Matatini, Shaun Hendy, said people s lack of access to their regular doctor was a worry because it could make them more reluctant to get a test. ....
Meanwhile, seventy-one-year-old Lynne McLaughlin is ill with emphysema, a chronic inflammatory lung disease. But she won’t be able to see a GP at her medical centre in Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, for more than two weeks, and will head to the emergency department if her condition worsens. Ross Giblin/Stuff “It is just ridiculous,” she says. The difficulties the two women face point to a major general practitioner shortage across the country that was expected to worsen. On average, GPs are 53 years old and nearly half are due to retire over the next decade. But there aren’t enough doctors coming through to replace them, says Dr Bryan Betty, medical director of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP). ....