Patients may find even longer waits at two Island Health ERs in the months ahead due to staffing shortages.
warning of a “severe staffing shortage of physicians covering emergency room shifts” noting that “there are twenty-five 12-hour shifts that are not covered for the period up until the end of August.”
“I think we were on diversion for one day last week where the hospital says to folks look if this isn’t an emergency please go home, see us later, if it is an emergency come in, and if they don’t have the staff they have to airlift people out of here or send them by ambulance on a ferry,” said Lady Minto Hospital Foundation Executive Director Roberta Martell.Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.
“Last week there were two positions that they hired and these folks turned down the job for a lack of housing.”Island health says it’s aware of the issues and that it’s adding 17 new nurses at Lady Minto between January and June and that a new physician will join in July. Even with the changes in service at the Lady Minto and Saanich Peninsula ER’s Island Health says anyone needing emergency care should still go to their local emergency room and/or call 911.
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