Three days after announcing it will pull staff from children's respite care at Rotary Flames House to help at Alberta Children’s Hospital, the province says it is working to build capacity and hopes better supplies of over-the-counter cold medication will keep kids out of care.
"We need to make sure that children are getting the medications that they need so that parents can keep and take care of kids at home," Premier Danielle Smith said in the legislature Monday.
Health Minster Jason Copping says capacity is important, shuffling staff around is temporary and there are signs the current wave of influenza, RSA and COVID-19 infections is slowing. Dr. Joe Vipond, an emergency room physician, says the current approach isn't working and says the province – including newly appointed Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mark Joffe – need to start offering solutions beyond asking medical staff to do more.
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