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It’s an emergency … or perhaps it isn’t. In either case, Oahu emergency rooms are having to cope with a jump in the number of patients who head for hospital ER departments.
When ER departments are full, ambulances either have to make a longer drive to a different hospital or deal with longer wait times to transfer patients to doctors.