Overview
- All seven obstetrician‑gynecologists at Kamloops’s Royal Inland Hospital have resigned from in‑hospital care, citing unsafe workloads, recruitment failures and insufficient provincial support in an Oct. 11 letter.
- The specialists remain on site during a mandated 90‑day phased withdrawal, and patients are being told to continue presenting to the hospital for assessment and triage during the transition.
- The province is offering locum coverage at $7,100 per day with overnight premiums to maintain obstetrical and gynecologic services in the short term.
- Interior Health says it has identified roughly a dozen OB/GYN candidates and aims to fast‑track hiring of up to eight or nine, while a new contract offer to significantly increase compensation is being finalized.
- Doctors say they will coordinate tapering of care with Interior Health and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, with many planning to continue outpatient gynecology, as officials acknowledge broader shortages and risks to continuity of care.