Trauma patients may wait ‘up to four days’ due to ER staffing shortages

Emergency physician Dr. Raghu Venugopal on the staffing shortages that are facing ER workers 'to make the best out of the worst.'

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24 comments

  1. FUNTIMES…👍🇨🇦… TRUTHFUL …? 🤣. “RULES AND PRINCIPLES WERE DRAWN UP TO ACCOMMODATE THE ABUSERS.’

  2. An absolutely failure from top to bottom. This is what happen when you overwork and underpay a highly specialized work force.

    1. In my province of Alberta, the provincial government proposed massive pay cuts (8% for my profession, up to 11% for social workers)… after 7 years of a pay freeze 😂. Insanity

  3. It’s pretty simple – you shouldn’t have fired thousands of workers who chose body autonomy. But you never talk about THAT part….

  4. Healthcare & Education are key sectors to keep the workers trained & healthy. Cutting spending in these areas will bite you hard later on. It’s a Conservative run province just like Alberta both cut spending on entering office. Another factor is total reliance on foreign workers were education qualifications are not accepted in Canada so they have to retrain and sit exams AGAIN !!! Which is madness.

  5. Canada’s health care system is terrible and there needs to be something done to help the nurses doctors etc to be able to function and they need to hire more nurses doctors and allow the unvaccinated nurses doctors etc back so they can all save lives ..

  6. This is happening coast to coast. You can blame the Trudeau voters in Ontario for the mess Canada is in.

  7. Yepp they just call in sick it is so easy now for all workers to have days off
    So i guess you big bosses will have to work now

  8. Then why don’t you Hire Back all the nurses that you Unjustly fired for “exercising their constitutional rights to medical and bodily autonomy)…….problem solved. Your Welcome 🙄😒

    1. Exactly and on their personal phones….I witnessed that last week.

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