More doctors are making their way to Lake Country.

The Turtle Bay Medical Clinic, , will have three new doctors in its facility in September.

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The clinic will have six full-time doctors with a possible seventh.

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The new doctors will also see walk-ins with the clinic taking on another 5 to 6,000 patients.

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The first initial patients have been processed and scheduled, filling up the first doctors pool.

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At full-capacity, the clinic will have around 10,000 patients.

Lake Country residents take priority, but the clinic also accepts patients from Vernon and Kelowna.

Doctor shortages have been an ongoing issue in B.C.

According to Divisions of Family Practice communications officer Clare O91裸聊视频機allaghan, 91裸聊视频淒octors of BC is working together with the B.C. Government and health authorities around strategies to recruit and retain family doctors in the province.

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Email info@turtlebaymedical.ca to receive information or to 802-11850 Oceola Rd. to submit an application.