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Staf, students and family members for Tanners

Crossing Elementary School gathered on the
school grounds on the evening of Tuesday,
January 21st to take part in the schools annual
Family Fun Night. Organizers took some time
out to thank parents and community members
for their contributions in assisting the school
develop its new outdoor skating rink and
attendees took part in a number of activities
including skating, snow soccer, and broomball.
Te school also provided the crowd with a
fre pit and hot chocolate to keep warm.
Fun for the Whole Family
Photos by Jennifer Paige
By JENNIFER PAIGE
I
f an apple a day keeps the doc away what keeps the
doctor around?
Prairie Mountain Health recently announced the
addition of four new doctors to the health authority.
Killarney, Deloraine, Swan River and Minnedosa will
all see an additional family physician begin practice in
the community over the course of the next few weeks.
Tis is excellent news for the residents of Minnedo-
sa who have been plagued with a lack of health care op-
tions and service suspension for a number of months.
And while any additional health care provider would
be welcomed with open arms, this addition may only
be a bandage solution.
Dr. Hussain is going to be leaving the community
soon, we are just waiting for an actual departure date
but he is going to be departing the community over the
next two months. So this is really only going to meet
status quo, it isnt going to provide an additional cov-
erage, explained Michelle McKay, director of medical
services administration with Prairie Mountain Health.
We are still going to be extremely short in
Minnedosa. We are lucky that there is a walk-in-clinic
in town, which lots of small communities dont have.
But people are certainly going to have to be patient un-
til we can get some additional resources and I have no
indication of when that might be.
With only four new doctors in the authority and
18 communities short physicians, some more than
one, Prairie Mountain Health had a dif cult decision
deciding where to assign the new physicians.
Te four locations that were chosen were ex-
pressed as the most urgent with Minnedosa in des-
perate need of alleviating stress for the doctors who
have been asked to cover emergency services without
enough resources.
Te new doctor in town, Dr. Owojori, comes to us
through the International Medical Graduates program.
He is a Nigerian trained physician and will hopefully
be starting to practice in Minnedosa in mid-March but
the authority doesnt have an exact date at this time.
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A New Doctor
in Town