“It was absolutely terrifying to be on an airplane going somewhere else for care because your child is that sick.”
Her four-year-old son, Remy, was on a stretcher, two critical-care paramedics at his side.
Typically, an ambulance would race 75 kilometres to McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton. But that hospital, overrun with respiratory infections, had no space in its ICU. The second closest children’s hospital in London was full. Rutherford is grateful for the doctors and nurses at Kingston General. They saved her son. They offered comfort during long, often scary days.
In Ontario, kids are regularly transferred between hospitals, usually from one in the community to a children’s hospital or one offering specialized pediatric care. In northern Ontario and rural areas, sick and injured kids often need to be flown to cover vast distances. The doctor prescribed Tylenol — local pharmacies had none — and said Remy would recover at home from what seemed to be a viral infection.
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