Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis informed city council Monday the city has landed three more new doctors to help alleviate a serious doctor shortage in the municipality.

An estimated 15,000 residents in the city do not have a family physician despite a continued effort by Belleville’s Physician Recruitment Program that has drawn as many as 60 physicians to the city through signed agreements since 2007.

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Ellis lauded program manager Karen Poste in council declaring, “manager of physician recruitment, that’s three today, a very good job. Thank you for that and we expected more no so the bar has been set high.”

The mayor was speaking to the securing of a medical agreement with Dr. Tyrelle Hunt, Dr. Kene Ilora and Dr. Ugo Uzondu.

Hunt is currently working as a fully license

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