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New Brunswick hospitals in ‘crisis’ amid ongoing health-care worker shortages
By Nathalie Sturgeon Global News
Posted April 11, 2022 4:39 pm
The president of the New Brunswick Medical Society says the hospital system in many areas is at a crisis level amid ongoing staff shortages due to the COVID-19 virus.
“Again, red phase and crisis,” he said. “If New Brunswickers can’t hear that and know our hospitals are in a crisis, I’m not sure what else to say.”
MacMillan said things are being pushed back, surgeries postponed, and services are limited.
“The hospital remains functional as it has in the past,” he said. “But what we’re trying to do is let the public know that COVID-19 hasn’t left. It is still affecting the hospital system even though mandates have been lifted. In the hospital, we’re still dealing with COVID on a daily basis.”...
New Brunswick hospitals in ‘crisis’ amid ongoing health-care worker shortages
By Nathalie Sturgeon Global News
Posted April 11, 2022 4:39 pm
The president of the New Brunswick Medical Society says the hospital system in many areas is at a crisis level amid ongoing staff shortages due to the COVID-19 virus.
“Again, red phase and crisis,” he said. “If New Brunswickers can’t hear that and know our hospitals are in a crisis, I’m not sure what else to say.”
MacMillan said things are being pushed back, surgeries postponed, and services are limited.
“The hospital remains functional as it has in the past,” he said. “But what we’re trying to do is let the public know that COVID-19 hasn’t left. It is still affecting the hospital system even though mandates have been lifted. In the hospital, we’re still dealing with COVID on a daily basis.”...
