Northern Medical Society Sounds The Alarm

Apr 12, 2018 | 11:12 AM

PRINCE GEORGE — “We’re spinning our wheels.”

That’s how Dr. Michael Moran with the Northern Medical Society describes their efforts, and those of Northern Health, to move forward on a surgical tower for University Hospital of Northern BC. 

“Apparently, Northern Health is ready to go. Their concept plans are done and now they need the go-ahead to make a business plan,” he says. “And nothing is happening. It seems like there is silence from the government.”

He says, as a surgeon, the OR’s are antiquated and can’t support many of the new technologies used in his trade. In fact, retired surgeon Dr. Bill Simpson anecdotally recalls one of his last surgeries.