Dinwiddie Residents Call for Medical Services

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DINWIDDIE -- A sometimes emotional group of concerned citizens packed into the Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday to urge the county to take swift action to cure an urgent shortage of doctors.

With the retirement earlier this year of Dr. Denise Harrison and the closing of Southern Dominion Health Systems' local office because of a water line break, Dinwiddie currently has only two practicing physicians. Speakers at the meeting said neither of those doctors is accepting new patients, and a growing number of residents must leave the county to get medical services.

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Dinwiddie Residents Call for Medical Services

Robert O'Day of Sutherland was one of a half-dozen speakers out of about 50 residents who attended the meeting to support the medical-care push. He told supervisors that having medical se...

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