Fraser Health has become the latest health authority to make job cuts.

The authority, which covers the area between Hope all the way west to Burnaby and Delta, confirmed Friday that they have been implementing workforce reductions in the form of layoffs, closing open job postings and cancelling third-party contracts.

It’s part of a provincewide restructuring, coming on the heels of the Provincial Health Services Authority cutting 57 employees and eliminating 61 vacant positions earlier this month, not long after the Island Health Authority chopped 117 non-union jobs.

Fraser Health has close to 48,000 staff and includes 12 hospitals that service more than two million people in the Lower Mainland, making it the largest regional health authority in B.C.

FHA spokesperson Amory Wong said th

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