In charge of a health-care system in dire need of more staff, P.E.I. Health Minister Mark McLane says there’s also a shortage when it comes to the people trying to hire doctors
“We do have staffing issues in recruitment too,” he said in an interview with CBC News on Monday. “We have lost a senior physician recruiter. We have, I think, five or six empty positions and like any industry, we’ve had some turnover in staffing and recruitment over the last year or two.”
Nearly half of the positions on P.E.I.’s medical professional recruitment team are either vacant or occupied by people who are on leave, McLane said.
The latest vacancy came after a heated town-hall meeting in Summerside earlier this month, the minister said, when one staff member left to go to a different provincial department.
