The sign posted at the Cariboo Memorial Hospital Oct. 2 notifying people the emergency room was closed **unless patient is imminently dying** is indicative of much larger issues in health care, said BC Nurses’ Union president Adrian Gear.
“There is a province-wide nursing staff crisis, there’s a physician shortage and there is a significant impact on patient care,” Gear told the Black Press Media.
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