Merritt Mayor Mike Goetz says his frustration with closures at the city’s only emergency department has reached boiling point.
The facility at Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt, about 127 kilometres west of Kelowna in the province’s Interior, has been shuttered nine times already this year due to staffing shortages, according to the health ministry.
Things came to a head for Goetz last week when he heard about a senior who had been found outside the closed department’s doors in the middle of the night.
“To find a senior collapsed at the foot of your hospital when the door is closed kind of tells you how the whole system is working right now,” Goetz told CBC
→ Continue reading at CBC News