B.C. has launched an advertising campaign in Washington, Oregon and California to attract health-care professionals who want to move to Canada to work, the province announced Friday.

The ad campaign was unveiled at the municipally run Colwood Medical Clinic in Colwood Commons, where Dr. Muthanna Yacoub, a physician who has been practising in the United States, is planning to start working this year.

Yacoub is one of 704 physicians and 525 nurses from the U.S. who have expressed interest in working in B.C. since the province’s targeted recruitment campaign began in March.

“The opportunity to practise in British Columbia makes perfect sense to me,” said Yacoub in a statement, expressing concern that in the U.S, providing appropriate care is often measured against patients’ ability to affo

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