Canada Emergency Rooms

Ewa Hodges assumed no news was good news after she went for a routine mammogram, but she later was “devastated” to learn this was far from the truth. The Toronto, Ont., resident found out a year after her screening in 2019 that she…

As Canada’s health-care system continues to grapple with staffing shortages, long wait times and emergency room closures, nearly 30 per cent of Canadians report “chronic difficulty” accessing care, new polling shows. The survey…

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When Simon McNeil and his wife, Pam Han, moved to rural Prince Edward Island from Toronto in 2018, they were looking for somewhere a little quieter to live.They had no idea this decision would mean years of radio silence from the…

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is raising strong objections to moves by some provinces to increase publicly covered health services offered by private, for-profit companies in response to major backlogs and interruptions in health-care…

Doctors, nurses, patients and their advocates are calling it a crisis. Health-care systems across Canada are facing significant pressures, thanks to a perfect storm of challenges that have resulted in emergency room closures and…

Berni Wood was in the throes of a COVID-19 infection and was struggling to breathe when she was told she would have to wait upwards of 20 hours in a Prince Edward Island emergency room to receive medical care.The Charlottetown…