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Patients brought to Canadian hospitals by ambulance forced to wait hours for emergency care

Patients being brought into hospitals in Canada by ambulance are being subjected to hours-long waits as the country’s publicly funded health system struggles with staffing shortages. Alberta Health Services Paramedic Don Sharpe recently spoke with RAIR Foundation USA to explain how hospitals there are regularly forcing patients in urgent need of care to wait for hospital admission. … Continue reading Patients brought to Canadian hospitals by ambulance forced to wait hours for emergency care