A paramedic loads his stretcher back into the ambulance after bringing a patient to the emergency room at a hospital in Montreal, Thursday, April 14, 2022. Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have topped 2100 patients in Quebec.
Many medical experts warn constant closures of Canadian emergency departments are merely a symptom of bigger issues throughout the country’s strained health-care system, and won’t be an easy fix.Many medical experts warn constant closures of Canadian emergency departments are merely a symptom of bigger issues throughout the country’s strained health-care system, and won’t be an easy fix.
Northern B.C. has been hit hard by emergency closures again this summer.
Dozens attended a rally in Fort Nelson, B.C. this summer as northeast B.C. grapples with a series of emergency room closures this summer. suggests the number of Canadians without regular access to a primary care provider, like a family doctor or nurse practitioner, jumped from 4.5 million in 2019 before the pandemic to an estimated 6.5 million last year.
Those challenges are linked to both patients filling ERs due to the lack of primary care, she explained, along with backlogs elsewhere in hospitals. But it's better than ERs being shuttered entirely, Tiller stressed, since the initial virtual assessment fills a staffing gap.The approach may already be saving lives, he added: One patient who arrived at the town's hospital in heart distress was able to quickly get life-saving blood clot-busting medication, thanks to a virtual doctor working in collaboration with the on-site health-care team.
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