The number of maternity GPs has shrunk to about 25 from 48 over the last two years in south Vancouver Island, with another two scheduled to leave in September
The south Island has lost about half its family doctors who specialize in maternity patients, leaving at least 100 pregnant women scrambling to find care, says a former View Royal maternity doctor.
Danielle Garber, 37, the mother of a three-year-old, who is now pregnant with twins due in the fall, said when she found out she was pregnant, she phoned every maternity care provider she could find in the capital region. “The turnaround time can be longer than we want it to be, but we are increasing capacity,” said Bos. “However, maternity care is primary care, and we have a primary care crisis here in south Island, and this is part of a bigger problem.”
In addition to running a community maternity clinic, and maybe a family practice, maternity doctors do 12- or 24-hour maternity hospital shifts delivering babies and caring for anyone admitted with a pregnancy complication, Johnston said. “We are the emergency department for women who are 20 weeks [pregnant] and over,” she said.
It’s doing the same for family physicians who provide other facility-based services, including in-patient care, long-term care and palliative care. “They are going to be the most impacted because the higher-resourced women will call around and they’ll figure something out,” she said. “Lower-resourced women are just going to show up at labour and delivery at the hospital with no prenatal care, probably with some big complications.”
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