“He believes the ministry and the medical association may have made their decision without properly taking into account the medical services provided in the community to patients from northern #FirstNations and patients who work in the mining industry in #RedLake but do not reside there, he said.” #RuralHealth

“#RedLake had been unable to fill all seven full-time equivalent positions it's funded for, but #doctors used the balance of the funding in part to offer premiums to attract #locums, physicians who do temporary placements in the community, Kumar said.

"Last week from Aug. 1 to Aug. 6, we would have been closed because we did not have any physician coverage, so we had to increase the premiums significantly to make it attractive for the physicians to come”