Janet Mort confirmed to Global News Tuesday that a doctor has come forward and agreed to take her husband on as a patient.
She was forced to take out an ad in the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper in an effort to try and find a doctor for her husband.
“We need a doctor’s help to renew my 82-year-old husband’s prescriptions. We will agree to any reasonable fee,” the ad reads.
“Our wonderful family doctor retired at Christmas. No walk-in clinics seem to be available. Today even Telus Health MyCare had no Dr. virtual appointments available for months,” it continues.
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Due to privacy reasons, Mort could not provide any more details.
Mort is an Order of British Columbia recipient who has a PhD in language and literacy and who has been lauded for work helping children overcome reading problems.
She told Global News she tried everything she could think of to find a doctor for her husband of 51 years, before taking out the newspaper ad.
Nearly one million British Columbians are currently without a family physician, according to BC Family Doctors.
— with files from Simon Little