‘Fear’ and ‘panic’: stories inside Canada’s ERs | CBC Radio

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Published 13.12.2022
‘Fear’ and ‘panic’: stories inside Canada’s ERs | CBC Radio
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Today on Front Burner, as respiratory sicknesses surge throughout the nation, we hear tales from individuals who struggled to get care from an overloaded health-care system.

Three people, all wearing red plaid, hug and smile. The person in the middle is a young child.
Julia Murray, proper, says she began to panic whereas making an attempt to get take care of her three-year-old son, Jack, when he bought a excessive fever. (Submitted by Julia Murray)

Front Burner26:56‘Fear’ and ‘panic’: tales inside Canada’s ERs

A surge of respiratory sickness is placing stress on an already overloaded health-care system in lots of locations throughout the nation and making it even tougher for a lot of Canadians to get examined by their household medical doctors, at walk-in clinics and even within the emergency room. Today we’ll be listening to private tales from individuals who say they’ve struggled to get well timed entry to the medical care they desperately wanted.

Julia Murray is a mother in Conception Bay South in Newfoundland whose 3-year-old son Jack got here down with an terrible fever in early December. Bianca Gallant of Memramcook, New Brunswick, says she just lately had a 14 hour wait in a Moncton ER that resulted in her needing emergency surgical procedure. 

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