Premier John Horgan repeats plea for more federal cash as three small hospitals closed ERs on the weekend
Emergency rooms in Clearwater, Port McNeill and Chetwynd closed for 12-hour periods between Friday and Sunday because there wasn’t enough staff, forcing patients to travel to hospitals in other communities.
He said new hospitals being built by the New Democrats “are going to be empty because there will be no people to actually staff these facilities.”Article content Horgan has repeatedly asked for increased federal funding as the key to shoring up health care. Provinces and territories have been asking Ottawa to increase its share of health-care funding from 22 per cent to 35 per cent, which for B.C. would mean an increase of $3.9 billion a year.
Horgan said while he’s “optimistic” the prime minister is taking the issue seriously, “I don’t know if … he and his team understand how important it is to get started. The more we wait, the more difficult the challenge becomes.” A nurse at Royal Inland Hospital, who spoke to Postmedia News on the condition of anonymity because she fears reprisals, said the repeated closures of Clearwater’s emergency room have placed added pressure on already burnt-out nurses.“Our emergency department is already very overcapacity and understaffed,” she said. “We just feel that we’re at a place where something needs to be done, and there’s nothing being done imminently to help with our capacity and our staffing challenges.
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