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Kelowna Doctor Makes Plea for Support to Address Hospital Staffing Crisis
- On May 31, 2025, the Obstetrics and Gynecology team at Kelowna General Hospital collectively issued a letter highlighting an urgent shortage of primary maternity care providers at the facility.
- This shortage worsened after three family physicians supporting deliveries resigned from the Central Okanagan Maternity Clinic, effective May 31, 2025, reducing low-risk delivery coverage starting June 1.
- As remaining primary care providers now focus only on prenatal and postnatal care, nine KGH OB-GYNs have been asked to handle 20-40 additional births per month until maternity delivery services resume.
- Multiple obstetricians in Kelowna have voiced serious safety concerns, stating that they face the difficult ethical dilemma of having to prioritize one patient’s care over another, fully aware that any postponement could cause lasting harm to a mother or baby.
- The department urges regional health authorities and the provincial health ministry to enhance compensation, actively recruit healthcare providers, develop reliable contingency plans, and facilitate patient transfers when necessary in response to concurrent pediatric and maternity care emergencies.
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Kelowna doctors warn of 'unsafe' maternity, gynaecological care due to staff shortage
Days after physicians, parents and politicians spoke out about the 'pediatric care crisis' in Kelowna, the entire Kelowna General Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology penned a joint letter sounding the alarm on unsafe maternity ca
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