Emergency department at 100 Mile House hospital on diversion due to limited staffing
The emergency division at a hospital in B.C.’s Cariboo area will probably be on diversion this weekend as a result of restricted doctor availability.
On Friday, Inside Well being introduced that 100 Mile District Basic Hospital will endure in a single day diversion hours.
The in a single day diversion hours started Friday evening, and can run once more Saturday and Sunday, from 8 p.m. to eight a.m., till Monday morning.
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Inside Well being is advising residents to nonetheless name 911 within the occasion of an emergency, and to go to Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake or Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops to go to an emergency division.
In a press launch, Inside Well being mentioned it “regrets this momentary change to regular operations in 100 Mile Home. All efforts have been made to fill this shift, and energetic recruitment for added physicians to assist emergency division companies in 100 Mile is ongoing.”
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This diversion was introduced on the heels of an unlucky incident of an Ashcroft girl who died of a cardiac arrest regardless of residing subsequent to the neighborhood’s hospital.
That hospital’s emergency division was closed as a result of staffing points, and the neighborhood’s ambulance was already out on one other name when the lady had her emergency.
— With information from Simon Little
