650 more doctors practicing in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Government said there are 650 more doctors practicing in the province compared to nine years ago.
Part of the credit for the increase goes to the Saskatchewan International Physician Practice Assessment (SIPPA) program which has added 190 doctors since 2011, 96 per cent of those doctors are in rural areas.
Indian Head is one of the smaller communities that has benefited from the SIPPA program with five international doctors coming through in the past several years. Two of those doctors just completed the requirements to practice medicine in Canada.
“We have just been granted another two doctors and they have actually signed on for three years and they are both living in the community, so we are very grateful for that,” said Indian Head Mayor Sherry Kirpa.