Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital joined Kemptville District Hospital and Glengarry Memorial Hospital in temporary ER closures.
The situation is not only unprecedented, but also extremely dangerous, said Dr. Alan Drummond, who is himself an emergency physician at a rural Eastern Ontario hospital — in Perth — as well as co-chair for public affairs with the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“Patient and staff safety is our main priority,” hospital president and chief executive officer Mary Wilson Trider said. Glengarry Memorial Hospital in Alexandria also closed its emergency department from 6 p.m. Saturday until 8 a.m. Sunday because of staff shortages. The hospital only resumed full 24-hour care at its emergency department on Aug. 22 after partial closings beginning in mid-July.
This is not the first weekend that emergency departments in Eastern Ontario have been closed this summer. “It is all well and good to plan for the future, but right now none of that is going to solve today’s problem,” Drummond said.
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