The emergency rooms are always crowded

Catherine Montambeault

Monday, January 8, 2018 22:47

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The emergency room continued to overflow its banks, Monday, to the four corners of Québec, despite the end of the Holiday season and the cold wave.

In the early evening, the jewish general Hospital recorded the occupancy rate is the highest in Montreal, with an impressive 236 %. There were 34 patients on stretchers for more than 24 hours, and 10 for more than 48 hours.

Eleven other establishments in the montreal area had an occupancy rate exceeding 100 %, including the Hospital of Verdun (181 %), the Lakeshore general Hospital (165 %), the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital (161 %) and the Santa Cabrini Hospital (155 %).

In Montérégie, the eight emergencies in the region exceeded their capacity, and several approached even double, the Hôpital Pierre-Boucher in Longueuil, quebec, and the Centre hospitalier Anna-Laberge in Châteauguay.

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The hospital is the most crowded of the province was the Centre hospitalier régional de Lanaudière, with an occupancy rate of 245 %. Not less than 81 stretchers were occupied, for a capacity of only 33.

On average, the emergency rooms were crowded to 120 % on Monday.

According to the data of the ministry of Health, this peak is notably due to the influenza activity, which is ” high with tendency to increase “.

Before presenting to the emergency department, the department recommends people to call the Info-Santé service at 8-1-1 to have a nurse directs them to the appropriate resource for their health problem.

You can also consult the site health.govt.qc.ca or go to clinic.