Two veteran medical professionals are warning that Nova Scotia’s health-care system is in need of sweeping changes, amid renewed scrutiny of the province’s overloaded emergency departments.
Nova Scotia's health unions say long-standing staffing shortages in emergency rooms are a key reason two hospital managers last week warned that some patients may be dying from long wait times.
Senior citizen Gary MacLeod says his most recent waits in the emergency department at the QEII Health Sciences Centre were like being on a “battlefield.”
Senior citizen Gary MacLeod says his most recent waits in the emergency department at the QEII Health Sciences Centre were like being on a “battlefield.”