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A new maternity clinic is opening inside Chilliwack General Hospital today — a community-led response to a growing crisis in obstetric care across the Fraser Valley. The number of physicians providing maternal care in the region has dropped from around 25 in 2018 to roughly five today, even as the population has grown significantly.

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A community-led maternity clinic is set to open Monday inside Chilliwack General Hospital. It’s a multi-agency project that was launched to address the lack of obstetric care in the Fraser Valley.

It will be led by the Chilliwack Obstetrical Group and supported by Chilliwack Division, the Chilliwack Hospital Foundation, Fraser Health Foundation and Fraser Health.

The clinic was born out of a “vision shared by local physicians to centralize maternity care into a single, multidisciplinary hub within the hospital setting,” according to a release from the Chilliwack Hospital Foundation. 

The clinic will address the dearth of maternity care in the Fraser Health region, where the fast-growing population has outpaced the number of physicians providing such care.

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