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Originally Posted by Fuzz
They should be working as hard as possible to free up room in the system. Things like home care and opening more senior care spaces. Be more flexible with urgent care clinics outside the ER. Get people out of the hospital that don't need to be there.
Frankly though, this is a result of our population voting for the same idiots who keep making it worse. We are 2 years into this, and are worse off than when we started. There is zero excuse for this, particularly given our massive surpluses we have which could be used to fix problems.
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BC has just as many problems as Alberta or Ontario. It's so bad that hospitals outside of major centres have their ER shut for large parts of the week, requiring patients of these hospital to be diverted elsewhere, some over 100km away.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...ysis-1.6522490
This isn't a conservative problem as you want to portray it, it's a systemic Canada wide staffing problem that covid simply put a magnifying glass to.
It needs to be done from the education level onwards. Grants, etc, importing nurses and doctors from other countries. More capacity doesn't fix staffing issues, people need to be enticed into nursing and medical practices, while the boomer population gets older. Status quo just won't work.