“Signs of a capacity crisis are everywhere,” an open letter to Albertans signed by more than 180 emergency physicians reads.
Doctors across Calgary are sounding the alarm over the state of emergency care in the city.
“There’s lots of areas of the health-care system right now that are not functioning as well as they should,” Dr. Marc Francis, who works at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, said. “We are witness right now to what has essentially been a prolonged health care collapse that has resulted in patients experiencing inhumane wait times, frequently well over eight hours, 15 hours,” he said. “And even after they receive care, patients who are admitted to hospital languishing in the emergency department because there’s no space for them in the hospital system upstairs.”
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