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The Halifax Infirmary’s emergency department is so clogged with people seeking treatment, doctors and nurses are now seeing patients in a former conference room, says one insider, who compared the scene to a sinking ship.
Nova Scotia Health confirmed Tuesday that patients are being seen in a former conference room at the Infirmary. “I don’t think it’s any surprise to anybody that we have a large number of patients in the emergency department and wait times to be seen can be quite lengthy, and we also have a lot of admitted patients that are waiting for beds in the hospital that are kind of backing things up.”Offices in a former administration area have been converted into space for beds at the Halifax Infirmary.
The hospital plans to open a large space adjacent to the former conference room on Wednesday that contains 16 beds, she said. “But I think now that people have actually seen the space and seen it functioning, people are really pleased,” she said. “If you call an ambulance, you’ll either get seen in an ambulance hallway or you’ll be seen in a conference room because most of the beds are blocked with admitted patients.”
“And then the paramedics realized how sick he was. They moved him to the department and then he died, and the quality review is saying, ‘Well, it took them five hours to get his blood transfusion.’"“It wasn’t 40 minutes; it was five hours and 40 minutes because they didn’t realize he needed it for five hours because of all the disfunction in the emergency department.”
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