BC healthcare: Province to fund lots of extra coaching seats

BC healthcare: Province to fund lots of extra coaching seats

The BC authorities has introduced it’s funding 322 new health-care coaching seats at establishments across the province.

Well being Minister Adrian Dix says two dozen seats for urgently wanted medical lab assistants will likely be established at Camosun Faculty, Vancouver Neighborhood Faculty and Thompson Rivers College’s open studying program.

Superior-care paramedics will get coaching on the Justice Institute of BC, whereas seats are additionally being fast-tracked for respiratory therapists at Thompson Rivers.

The federal government says consumption for greater than two-thirds of these seats will start “by fall 2023,” though some will begin as early as this summer time.

The province additionally plans to fund $4.5 million in bursaries to draw internationally educated well being professionals who need to transfer to the province.

“Increase and supporting our well being workforce is our greatest precedence,” mentioned Dix in an announcement Tuesday.

“We all know extra must be finished, and we’ll proceed our work to develop BC’s health-care workforce,” he added.


With information from The Canadian Press.