Interior Health also closed emergency rooms in Merritt and Clearwater and patients from both communities were directed to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.
The mayor of delta is calling for serious change after the emergency department at Delta Hospital experienced two closures over the weekend. Andrea Macpherson reports the closures are being blamed on a shortage of doctors.
The emergency room at Delta’s hospital is now open after a two-night partial closure over the weekend.Fraser Health first sent out a notice on Saturday evening stating “that due to physician staffing challenges at Delta Hospital, Fraser Health is implementing a temporary service interruption beginning at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 22 to Sunday, February 23 at 7:00 a.m.”
A second service interruption notice was sent out on Sunday evening and lasted until 6:30 a.m. on Monday.The union representing B.C.’s paramedics told Global News they are not getting any advance notice from BC Emergency Health Services, adding that if they had known, they could have added more staff on the weekend to help.Cartel activity in Canada ‘very prevalent now,’ former Trudeau advisor says
“We’re doing the best we can,” he said. “Our members, when they are given opportunity or given notice, do step up, day after day, across the province.”“Keeping hospitals open, keeping emergency rooms open is a basic, fundamental role of government and if we can’t do that, we’ve got much larger systemic issues,” he said.
Interior Health also closed emergency rooms in Merritt and Clearwater due to nursing staff shortages and patients from both communities were directed to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.Egg smuggling rises at U.S. borders as bird flu drives up pricesMaking one Alberta child’s wish come trueViewed
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