Two New Brunswick families are speaking out after they say they were given little to no notice family members living with dementia would be transferred from one hospital to another.
The health-care system across New Brunswick is continuing to struggle with a shortage of ICU beds and an abundance of parked ambulances waiting to unload patients outside local emergency departments.
Moncton Hospital executives watched "hours" of security footage, including a live feed, while trying to get to the bottom of a spike in emergency cesarean sections before firing a nurse, a 2019 email sent by a physician states.
Long waits for patients to be transferred from the care of paramedics to hospitals in the Moncton area continued this week, with a paramedic describing patients with serious health problems waiting hours for admission.
New Brunswick’s Health Minister says Horizon and Vitalite Health Networks, Medavie Health Services and the Department of Health met Thursday to discuss the situation with ambulance offload delays.