Emergency rooms are over capacity
Don’t get sick. Emergency rooms are over capacity. Global illustrates the story with a photo of the Lakeshore hospital, which is also in the news because of breaches in protocols exposing patients to Covid.
-
Kate
Reply
mare 22:00 on 2021-08-31 Permalink
Most emergency rooms are *always* over capacity in and around Montreal, even before Covid. Not so strange when you need an appointment for every walk-in clinic. So people are going to the ER for regular things, that could/should be handled by a GP. On top of that there’s a lot of people who needed urgent care months ago, but ignored the symptoms because they didn’t want to be in hospitals during Covid.
If you need to go the the ER, and have a choice, this page might be useful. https://gowell.ca/en/emergencies/s/montreal
DisgruntledGoat 03:08 on 2021-09-01 Permalink
@mare – This is a very cool resource! “Emergency wait time estimates are based on open data provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des services sociaux.”
I didn’t know the government provided open data for things like this.
JaneyB 19:59 on 2021-09-01 Permalink
@mare – agreed. I did a stint as a clerk in an ER in Toronto years back and about 60% of people should have seen a family doctor instead. People who’d had symptoms for many months would come by at 2am. Madness. Every city needs 24hour walk-in clinics. Those folks should not be in ERs.