Emergency physicians at St. Boniface Hospital said it’s demoralizing to see long wait times at Manitoba’s second-largest hospital, and elsewhere in the health-care system, having become increasingly normalized over the years.
Dr. Aaron Guinn says 57 people were waiting for care at the Winnipeg emergency department as of his last shift Wednesday evening. The doctor said those numbers would have once been “unheard of,” but it wasn’t even the worst day the department has had this week.
About 70 people were stuck in the waiting room Monday, Dr. Noam Katz — who also works at the emergency department — told CBC News. Some were waiting for care for 20 hours or more without seeing any movement, he said.
Guinn said there were 75 people waiting for care that evening, which he said would be an all-time record for the hospital. The previous record of 74 was set shortly after the new emergency department opened last fall, Guinn said.
At least the department was open. There are some hospitals in Ontario that have to close theirs a couple of times a month because they can’t scrounge up even one doctor to cover a shift.
WDYM that’s not normal? Every time I’ve been to the ER, it’s been packed and had to wait hours if you had something less urgent. I had broken my pelvis and one fixator pin had come loose from the halo, but the local hospital couldn’t fix it, so I had to get a friend to drive me two hours to the closest hospital that could, and then had to wait another four hours until they could re-align my bones and tighten the fixator again. If the triage nurse decides you’re not there for an emergency, they absolutely make you sit there until you give up and go away.
I keep hearing that Canada has horrible wait times, but it sounds the same to me? Does your ER not regularly run out of beds?
This is what happens when you keep cutting budgets. Both healthcare and education has been stripped to the point of near failure.
Pallister did that when he shut multiple rural hospitals and closed multiple ER locations. It’ll take some time before we get back to some semblance or normal.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/andrew-griffith-stakeholders-cheered-liberals-110018869.html
We all know why services of all types are failing while rents and housing has exploded in price. Low skilled immigration leads to a decrease in the standard of living, hence why we never did it historically.
We did it for Liberals to maintain power, by avoiding a technical recession. Then people rewarded them, as most of them that did it are still in power.
