As somebody who had to travel 27 hours to deliver my third child because I lived in Fort Nelson, B.C., at the time, I think a key piece of that is giving rural communities access to the resources they need to provide care. I had to travel to Burnaby to deliver my child because that was the only place I could afford to stay with family.
If we had access to resources there such as anaesthesia, ultrasound and things like that....
I had to travel four hours for my ultrasound.
Doctors don't necessarily want to provide care where they don't have the resources to provide care to their patients. They constantly feel like they're failing those individuals because they can't do things in an adequate timeline and have to depend on urban partners to desperately take some of their patients in a reactive manner instead of a proactive manner.