Multiple B.C. hospitals scaling back ER services due to staff shortages

Some B.C. hospitals have had to scale back again emergency space expert services this weekend owing to staffing shortages.

On Vancouver Island, the unexpected emergency office at Port McNeill’s healthcare facility will be shut right away, beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday until eventually 7 a.m. on July 17.

“Anyone experiencing a health care unexpected emergency really should call 911 or, if feasible, commence to Port Hardy Medical center,” Island Health and fitness wrote in a launch.

“Island Health and fitness and BC Emergency Well being Expert services have protocols in place to assure patients are transported to the acceptable web page.”

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In B.C.’s Inside, the unexpected emergency space at Ashcroft’s hospital is on diversion for the full weekend.

Also, the Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital in Clearwater went on diversion Friday night time, marking the fifth time this thirty day period it’s had to scale again companies.

Persons with urgent health-related desires in the communities of Ashcroft and Clearwater will require to journey to Kamloops’ Royal Insland Medical center this weekend to see an crisis place health care provider. In both communities, citizens facing an unexpected emergency should contact 911, Interior Health reported.


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Northern Health is also warning Hazelton-region inhabitants that Wrinch Memorial Clinic could have to go on diversion in the coming months if nursing staff ranges can not be preserved.

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— With information from World-wide BC’s Simon Little.

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