An official with the Ministry of Health has taken aim at how Belleville and Hastings County recruit doctors.
Jeff Goodyear says the city and county get funding from the provincial Underserviced Area Program to attract physicians, even though they have large sums of money to lure medical graduates.
He explained that is part of the reason changes to physician recruitment rules are being considered.
The ministry proposes using a Rurality Index for Ontario scale, under which communities that get a certain score will no longer be eligible for doctor recruitment funding.
