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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Canada: Williams Lake gets Hepatitis C clinic

Waiting times for people in the Cariboo seeking treatment to cure Hepatitis C will be shorter now that a new clinic has opened in Williams Lake.

Every month Dr. Alexandra King and clinical research nurse Shawn Sharma will run the clinic for a few days out of the Atwood Clinic in co-operation with local family doctor Jolien Steyl, who already runs an HIV-Aids clinic.

“As a family doctor it’s been a nightmare getting patients treated,” Steyl said. “They either have to travel really far or they don’t get started on treatment because the waiting lists are long.”

King and Sharma work at the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre (VIDC) where King  is an internal medicine specialist.

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