by The number of people in the province without a family doctor or nurse practitioner continues to grow.
There are 142,262 people on the family doctor waiting list as of April 1st.
That’s up from 139,000 last month.
The number of people on the list represents 14.3 percent of the province’s population.
There are 17,116 people on the family doctor waiting list in the Eastern Zone that includes Cape Breton.