British Columbia has launched a six-week, $5-million campaign of targeted advertisements to recruit doctors and nurses in the United States, citing "chaos" under the Trump administration to lure them north.

The Ministry of Health said the campaign launched on Monday was being shown on thousands of advertising screens in Washington, Oregon and California, at locations within a 16-kilometre radius of health-care facilities, as well as on podcasts and Netflix shows.

B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne said at a news conference it was a step B.C. needed to "take right now" to attract physicians, nurses and other health care workers, and the province would do everything in its power to ease their transition.

"This will help supercharge our overall recruitment campaign to attract U.S. health c

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