Physician recruitment is expected to be a large part of Stratford City Council’s next regular meeting.
Several officials from the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance, including President and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Williams, have requested to address council at their meeting Monday night on the issue.
Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson tweeted out Sunday in response to a tweet that Stratford needs a walk-in clinic that “according to the HPHA, all the physicians who have left our area have been absorbed by other local doctors and there are 585 Stratford residents registered to Health Care Connect as being without a family physician.”
Mathieson adds that “a new doctor coming to Stratford in September will absorb most people off Health Care Connect as well as others wanting a local doctor” and that “once the physician arrives, according to the Stratford General Hospital, that the city will be at our full compliment as approved by the government.”
He also says that SGH has stated that “family health teams are working and that a walk-in clinic is not necessary.”
Tonight’s meeting starts at 7 p.m. and it’s open to the public.
