The continuing reports of crisis conditions at Surrey Memorial Hospital have put the spotlight on leadership in the province’s health-care system, particularly at Fraser Health. The latest salvo from health-care workers came Tuesday in the form of a public letter from doctors in the hospital’s obstetrics and gynecology department warning of “unsafe conditions and adverse outcomes” — and taking leadership to task. Dr Joshua Greggain, president of Doctors of BC said the province’s health-care system is facing multiple layers of issues, that won’t be solved by a quick fix — including a change in leadership. “It is really more about frustration and moral injury and burnout that leads us to where we are, and the call for an individual to be held to account for this — this isn’t an individual problem — I genuinely believe that everyone in the system understands the gravity of the situation,” he said. Read more...
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