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By Chad Klassen

NEW MEDICAL HEALTH OFFICER

Interior Health hires new medical health officer for Kamloops region

Apr 23, 2020 | 12:40 PM

KAMLOOPS — A new medical health officer has been officially hired by Interior Health to serve the Kamloops region.

Interior Health confirmed to CFJC Today that Dr. Carol Fenton will be the first medical health officer based in Kamloops in a decade.

“Dr. Fenton is currently supporting our COVID-19 response,” said Interior Health in an emailed statement. “She will be permanently located in Kamloops later this year, and like all of our MHOs will be engaged in work in local communities as well as IH-wide priorities. Dr. Fenton was recruited prior to the pandemic being declared, and we are grateful for the timing of her arrival,”

Dr. Rob Parker, a long-serving medical health officer in Kamloops, had come out of retirement to help with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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On Wednesday, Kamloops mayor Ken Christian said during a media conference that an offer had been made. He said a medical health officer in the city is needed.

“Kamloops is city of 100,000 people. We should not be without a medical health officer,” said Christian on Wednesday outside city hall. “You could do the study across Canada as to how many cities of this size don’t have one. We need one, we’ve needed one, and we especially need one today.”

He added, “The potential for a medical health officer to advise local government, not just Kamloops but local government in this region about some of the decisions that we’ve had to make in response to this outbreak.”