People who have visited a hospital emergency room in Ontario recently are describing their experiences of lengthy waits for treatment or to get a bed.
Their stories are part of the extraordinary trends seen in the province’s hospitals over the past few months. Although spring is usually a time when the emergency departments are less backlogged, the latest statistics from Ontario Health show that wait times for ER patients to be admitted hitting all-time highs.
As previously detailed in reporting by CBC News, the record-setting ER bottlenecks are being caused by a variety of factors outside the emergency rooms, including a crunch in getting patients admitted because
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