This week seven OB/GYNs at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops notified the administration that they are resigning.Chris Young/The Canadian Press

If you’re pregnant and living in Kamloops, you are likely more concerned than the typical expectant woman about how it will all turn out.

There is the normal worry that comes with any pregnancy. And then there is the apprehension that arrives when the entire staff of obstetricians and gynecologists at the hospital you are to give birth at have announced they are resigning.

This week, the seven OB/GYNs at Royal Inland Hospital notified the administration that they are resigning over unaddressed concerns around unsafe workloads, staff shortages and an absence of support. They remain on the job for now as they must provide 90 days’ notice of their intent to leave.

If you live in B.C., you are by now used to a certain amount of chaos and uncertainty in the health care system. You are used to not being able to find a doctor and having to go to an emergency room to get concerns addressed that a family physician would normally handle. And you are also used to many of those same........

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