City of Belleville delegates will meet with the Ontario Medical Association and the Minister of Colleges and Universities at next week’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference in Ottawa. Mayor Neil Ellis says they’ll talk about primary healthcare shortages and doctor recruitment with OMA’s executive team. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1977/files/2025/08/neil-amo-doctors.wav

“Our responsibilities that we’ve been shouldering over the provinces having to pay to recruit doctors. We’ve invested I believe in over seven to eight million dollars in successfully recruiting well over 50 doctors. And this is not a municipal issue, it’s a provincial issue so we’re trying to swing the conversation over that way.”

Ellis says they’ll also have a mee

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