Quebec sets up crisis management team as Montreal hospital ERs face overcrowding
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Pediatric ERs have been particularly hard hit, with the Montreal Children’s Hospital operating at 183 per cent. Sainte-Justine hospital, meanwhile, wasn’t far behind at 175 per cent.On Tuesday, the head of the pediatric emergency department at Sainte-Justine hospital said his emergency rooms were “completely jammed with patients” with respiratory viruses, largely driven by respiratory syncytial virus.
Dr. Christopher Labos, a cardiologist and epidemiologist, spoke about the strain of the virus on local hospitals in an interview on Global News Morning. “If you have the emergency rooms in the hospitals overwhelmed with an infectious virus, well, then you don’t have room to take care of all the other stuff,” he said. “And so we’re seeing this now with both the adult hospitals and the pediatric hospitals.
“And as we get into flu season, if that gets worse, we start seeing more and more COVID cases. We’re going to have more and more people in the emergency rooms in the hospital with these respiratory viruses.
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