Granger Avery News Today

‘Dr. Granger Avery has long called for a centralized hospital to serve our North Island’

BC Health Minister Adrian Dix is set to announce new resources for the north Island, which has been crippled by doctor and nurse shortages.

Outgoing Port McNeill Mayor Gaby Wickstrom and retired physician Dr. Granger Avery say trying to keep three acute-care hospitals plus and an urgent-care health centre open in one region is not sustainable

A helicopter company that transports a Port McNeill doctor into a remote First Nations community stopped service this month due to an unpaid $75,000 bill.

Port McNeill hospital is closed to admissions and emergency visits after one of its three doctors called in sick, an indication of how a B.C.

Victoria specialists guide rural doctors through life-saving procedures from afar.

Armogam, 49, is the sole family ­practitioner remaining at Port McNeill Medical Collaborative at 2161 McNeill Rd., which he owns. He spoke out earlier this year when his physician partner, Dr. Joy Mijares, announced she was leaving the practice at the end of April. That left Armogam as the only family physician serving the area and hospital for the last three weeks. Port McNeill is home to roughly 3,500 people, and its physicians are supposed to also serve the Mount Waddington area and isol...