In just the past week, health officials in Alberta and Quebec have noted capacity issues at their hospitals with one official saying there were "a lot of kids being hospitalized."
Rise comes year after after Canadian pediatric were overwhelmed as a ‘tripledemic’ of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19 sent waves of young patients to the ER
As health-care teams remain dangerously overstretched, they’re also grappling with the pressure of what some physicians are calling a “new norm” for seasonal illnesses a range of viral and bacterial infections all back in circulation, with COVID-19 still chief among them.
The CHU Ste. Justine and Montreal Chidren s Hospital came together Dec. 6 in a call for public cooperation, urging parents not to bring their children to crowded hospital emergency rooms