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By Robert Frank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quebec government statistics show that proportionately fewer Laval residents are registered with a family doctor than any other region of Quebec except Montreal\u2014and that Montreal is catching up so rapidly that it could soon push Laval into last place in the province.
\nAccording to the Quebec Statistics Institute, just 61.1 per cent of Laval residents had a family doctor in 2015.
\nThat\u2019s up from 17.5 per cent from barely over half (52 per cent) Laval\u2019s population in 2011 but\u2014with nowhere to go but up\u2014the province\u2019s push to provide family doctors has proved far more successful in Montreal. The portion of the Montreal population with family doctors jumped nearly 29 per cent to 50.9 per cent in 2015, up from an abysmal 39.5 per cent in 2011.
\n\u201cHistorically, Laval is one of the regions…that\u2019s short of family doctors,\u201d Laval health care authority spokeswoman Paula Beaudoin told\u00a0The Suburban.<\/em>
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a shortage of about 70 family doctors,\u201d she explained in an electronic mail reply to the newspaper\u2019s query. \u201cThat represents about 17 per cent of the [medical] staff.\u201d
\nBeaudoin observed that Laval\u2019s short-staffed family doctors also carry a heavier load than merely caring for the city\u2019s own residents.
\n\u201c[Some] 30 per cent of the patients that Laval family doctors currently follow are not Laval residents,\u201d she said.
\nRemote regions rewarded<\/strong>
\nThe figures also show that the Health Ministry\u2019s full-court press to provide health care in the province\u2019s remote regions has paid dividends there.
\nThinly populated Saguenay-Lac St. Jean tops the chart at 82.7 per cent, followed closely by Chaudi\u00e8re-Appalaches at 82.3 per cent.
\nEven Quebec\u2019s far north fared much better. Its family doctor registration rate jumped 48 per cent from 51.6 per cent in 2011 to 76 per cent in 2015.
\nAccording to McGill professor Jon Bradley, the distortion in favour of remote regions is influenced by political factors.
\n\u201cQuebec politicians reserve special treatment for those who live in so-called remote areas,\u201d he wrote in a letter to\u00a0The Suburban,<\/em>\u00a0earlier this year.
\nThat\u2019s because Quebec crams two-thirds more citizens into its urban ridings than those in the hinterland. Urban ridings can contain 60,484 voters, while rural ridings need just 36,290 eligible souls to get the same representation in the provincial legislature.
\nThe sex factor<\/strong>
\nThe statistics (see chart) also showed that Laval women are much more likely to be registered with a family doctor than the city\u2019s men.
\n\u201cIn regions remote from major [population] centres…the registration rate for men and women tend to approach equality,\u201d the report said. \u201cConversely, the capital region, Laval, Montreal and the Laurentians displayed the greatest disparity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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