Pledge to address concerns comes after doctors at understaffed facility in Surrey pleaded for assistance
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix appeared at the embattled Surrey Memorial Hospital to pledge that help is on the way to address the crisis of understaffing that has prompted doctors there to come forward with letters pleading for help.
Surrey Memorial Hospital obstetrician and gynecologist Claudine Storness-Bliss, called the announcement “a win” for her department, hospital and the population in Fraser Health Authority. However, the lack of details of the commitments guarded her optimism, she said. She said as the concrete plan is expected to arrive in the fall, she, along with her colleagues, will be watchingMr. Dix’s announcement comes after weeks of increasingly urgent pleas from doctors at the hospital for more resources. Open letters have said the emergency room is overstretched and that obstetrics is suffering a “critical scarcity of resources.” Cardiologists have also complained.
Mr. Dix said his government will expand the existing Surrey Memorial Hospital by improving and increasing capacity for more inpatient and outpatient care, though details will not be available until the fall. The B.C. Nurses’ Union welcomed the province’s announcement and urged the Fraser Health Authority to ensure the action plan is implemented as soon as possible.
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