Staff at Alberta Children’s Hospital say even seriously sick kids are waiting up to four hours to be triaged, with a packed emergency department and lineups sometimes stretching out the door.
According to staff, at one point on Sunday, 133 patients were waiting to be seen in the emergency department.
Other jurisdictions around the world are seeing a similar trend: surging flu-like illnesses hitting unusually early. She says hospital wait times are "unacceptable," and that the current waves of illness and crisis in care are caused by two things."I think what we're experiencing is because we had such draconian lockdowns over the last three years," Smith said.
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