Northern Health conference in Happy Valley-Goose Bay this week – The Telegram
The Northern, Rural, and Remote Health (NRRH) conference, being held from October 6 to 9 is to share and collaborate on practices in rural and remote areas.
Dr. Michael Jong, President of the Canadian Society of Circumpolar Health, said the last conference like this was about 15 years ago. He said they have participants from across Canada, from all the territories and almost all the provinces people from Greenland and three people from Australia. He said it was important to have a conference like this in a northern community.
“When we have a conference in a big city, big city solutions are not our solutions, they don’t work for us,” he told the Labradorian. “We often innovate and do our own solutions but we can do things better and faster if we share it. The whole plan is to get people together and we learn from them and they learn from us, we collaborate and work together and faster.”
