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By Justin Brake, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s new health minister is vowing to address what she calls a \u201ccrisis of trust\u201d among reproductive health patients in \u00a0Labrador amid an ongoing investigation by the province\u2019s College of \u00a0Physicians and Surgeons into complaints against Happy Valley-Goose Bay\u2019s \u00a0only obstetrician\/gynecologist. \u201cI want to make it clear to residents in Labrador that [\u2026] it\u2019s my \u00a0responsibility to ensure that patients can feel respected, that they \u00a0have access to safe and respectful reproductive healthcare,\u201d Lela Evans, \u00a0the Inuk MHA for Torgat Mountains, told The Independent in a phone \u00a0interview Thursday. The minister\u2019s comments come after the College of Physicians and \u00a0Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (CPSNL) renewed the medical \u00a0license of an obstetrician\/gynecologist in Happy Valley-Goose Bay under \u00a0investigation following… <\/p>\n

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By Justin Brake, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s new health minister is vowing to address what she calls a \u201ccrisis of trust\u201d among reproductive health patients in \u00a0Labrador amid an ongoing investigation by the province\u2019s College of \u00a0Physicians and Surgeons into complaints against Happy Valley-Goose Bay\u2019s \u00a0only obstetrician\/gynecologist. \u201cI want to make it clear to residents in Labrador that [\u2026] it\u2019s my \u00a0responsibility to ensure that patients can feel respected, that they \u00a0have access to safe and respectful reproductive healthcare,\u201d Lela Evans, \u00a0the Inuk MHA for Torgat Mountains, told The Independent in a phone \u00a0interview Thursday. The minister\u2019s comments come after the College of Physicians and \u00a0Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (CPSNL) renewed the medical \u00a0license of an obstetrician\/gynecologist in Happy Valley-Goose Bay under \u00a0investigation following... <\/p>\n

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