Children’s emergency rooms in Canada facing high volumes amid surge in viruses
Some children’s hospitals in the country are running at occupancy rates of over 100 per cent amid a rise in viral illnesses that are typically seen in the fall and winter.
“Typically, every day, particularly on our inpatient medicine wards, our mental health wards were at or above 100 per cent occupancy,” said Tammy DeGiovanni, senior vice-president of clinical services and the chief nursing executive at CHEO. He said the volumes were unusual for this time of the year, with children coming in with classic symptoms of viral illnesses — that are non-COVID — such as fever, cough, cold, diarrhea and vomiting.“What we’re struggling with is the amount of patients seeking care for primary care, not emergency care, who are coming to our emergency department, who aren’t able to access their physician like they have in the past,” he said.
It’s a similar situation in other parts of the country that has forced hospitals in different provinces to resort to “planned closures” of ERs, said Collins.Hospitals in Quebec, the country’s second-largest province, New Brunswick and Manitoba have also partially shut departments or temporarily cut hours for anywhere from a couple of weeks to a number of months, according to statements from the hospitals.
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