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Doctors call for executive’s resignation due to Vancouver Island health struggles

Frustrated physicians say they have no confidence in health authority’s ability to address concerns
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Dr. Alex Nataros works at the Port Hardy Hospital, which has been in the news for years now due to closures and rotating hospital diversions. (Island Health photo)

Two doctors have issued separate calls asking for Island Health’s chief medical officer to resign in the wake of continued issues plaguing the delivery of health care on northern Vancouver Island

Port Hardy’s Dr. Alex Nataros posted on his official Twitter account that due to “physician harrassment and ongoing dereliction of duty to meet basic job responsibility to provide medical leadership” he is calling for “the resignation of Dr.

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Tyson Whitney

About the Author: Tyson Whitney

I have been working in the community newspaper business for nearly a decade, all of those years with Black Press Media.
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