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Kelowna residents who take their pets to Fairfield Animal Hospital for regular checkups and appointments will have to figure out an alternative option.
Today, Interior Health Pet Group (IHPG) announced that, starting in June, Fairfield will become an emergency practice only.
“We have strived to stay open and continue providing 24-hour emergency services throughout this challenging year, even if it’s meant changing some of the ways we do things,” said a statement from IHPG.
“Due to a veterinarian shortage and a huge increase in demand for veterinary care during the pandemic, we are unable to continue seeing regular and routine appointments, vaccines, annual exams and surgeries.”
Anyone with ongoing prescriptions with Fairfield can keep getting them filled until their pet’s next annual exam is due.
At that point, Fairfield employees will help transfer all records to one of their five sister clinics in the Okanagan, who will continue to provide standard care to pets throughout the region.
Those five sister clinics are:
- South Mission Animal Hospital (Mission area of Kelowna)
- Central Valley Vet (Glenmore area of Kelowna)
- Westbank Animal Care Hospital (West Kelowna)
- Summerland Animal Clinic (Summerland)
- South Okanagan Animal Care Centre (Penticton)
Fairfield will still be available for pet food sales.
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