Vernon cancer patients lose special entrance due to protocol that ‘doesn’t make sense’
Diagnosed with terminal cancer, John Erickson had just started his chemotherapy at Vernon Jubilee Hospital on Oct. 18, 2023. Despite his grim diagnosis, he was delighted to learn of a special parking area for cancer patients on the west side of the hospital near a handy side entrance, leading right to the McMurtry-Baerg Cancer Centre.But not long after he started his treatments he was surprised to find the entrance was closed one day in November.
With no walk-in clinics in Vernon, Erickson said there is never less than 10 people in the emergency waiting room. “If the wind were any worse, I wouldn’t be able to talk,” he told The Morning Star outside the west entrance. But Erickson says it is completely redundant for cancer patients, who already have to wear a mask in the clinic anyway.He has tried to reach out to every level of government possible, including IH, to visit the site and see the situation for themselves.IH has also told him that it anticipates the west entrance will be reopened at the end of March.
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