Dawson Creek City Council presented Dr. Magda du Plessis with the city’s 2022 Citizen of the Year Award on January 23, 2023. As South Peace medical director, she helped recruit physicians to Dawson Creek and stabilize local medical staffing after several physicians left.
While running her own clinic, Dr. du Plessis also helped establish the Chickadee Maternity Collaborative. The clinic brought physicians, midwives and nurses together to care for patients through pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period.
At the award presentation, Mayor Darcy Dober said her name kept coming up in his meetings with Northern Health. He thanked her for “how much you’ve given back and how much you’re doing for our medical system in Dawson Creek.”
