The Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre will be short on doctors for two and a half weeks beginning today.
To try to offset this, a virtual ER will be offered between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. to those presenting to the clinic.
Emergency, acute care, and medical clinic services, as well as lab and imaging services, will continue to be offered at the facility. Nursing, physiotherapy, dietitian, and diabetes care will also continue.
James Paton Memorial Hospital in Gander
Meanwhile, there continues to be a shortage in anesthesiology services at the James Paton Hospital in Gander.
Effective Tuesday, Central Health will be rescheduling more elective surgeries at the hospital. Affected patients will be contacted and rebooked.
Central residents who would normally receive urgent and emergent surgical services in Gander will be transferred to the Central Newfoundland Regional Health Centre in Grand Falls-Windsor.
Central Health will advise when elective surgery services can resume in Gander.
