Hospital staff shortages have led to rural hospitals closing, and at least three people seeking emergency care have died in the last year.
“It’s a disaster. We have a crisis in health care, there’s no doubt about that,” said B.C. Liberal finance critic Peter Milobar. “And the only one that doesn’t seem to really want to acknowledge that is the health minister, shockingly enough.”
On Sunday in Ashcroft, a woman who lives in the same block as the local hospital, which was closed at the time due to short staffing, died after she went into cardiac arrest and it took 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, according to details provided by Ashcroft Mayor Barbara Roden and the Provincial Health Services Authority.of Royal Inland Hospital’s emergency department in Kamloops. After that incident, Dix said there would be a comprehensive review of what went wrong.
“There’s not enough physicians. There’s not enough emergency space. There’s not enough nurses. There’s not enough family doctors. There’s not enough people getting the care that they need to either keep them out of the emergency room, or once they’re in the emergency room the system problems, including bed shortages and lack of staff, continue to plague all of the patients across the province,” he said.
Gear added it’s “tone deaf” of Dix to say in earlier interviews that these shortages are due to employees calling in sick. While she acknowledged nurses do get COVID, she argued the Lions Gate ER has 30 unfilled nurse vacancies because of a lack of recruiting and retaining staff.
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