Quebec emergency room doctors say situation is 'out of control'
An organization representing Quebec emergency room doctors is the latest to sound the alarm about the dire situation in the province's ERs.
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An organization representing Quebec emergency room doctors is the latest to sound the alarm about the dire situation in the province's ERs.
Overcrowding in an emergency room on Montreal's South Shore has reached a new level as patients are being forced to wait in ambulances, sometimes for hours, because there's no room inside.
One of Montreal's health regions has reportedly moved to the highest possible alert level in the province's health-care reorganization system, which means it's cancelling a maximum number of surgeries and other procedures.
MONTREAL -- Health-care workers in many Quebec hospitals say the situation is on the brink of collapse, as nurses, doctors and support staff work overtime to fight the second wave of COVID-19 and the drastically high daily increases in cases. Saturday, the province reported the highest single-day jump in novel coronavirus cases with 2,038 bringing the province's total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 174,839. The Quebec Institute of Public Health says there are 17,879 active cases including 1,005 hospitalizations. Health-care workers say there aren't enough workers. ...