Health Minister Adrian Dix says postponing non-urgent surgeries is one way to create room at hospitals for patients, especially children, who are fighting flu and other respiratory illnesses, including COVID.
Plans to make room for patients with respiratory illnesses by cancelling surgeries are in place in British Columbia hospitals, says Health Minister Adrian Dix, as parents worry about long emergency room waits with sick children.
"I've raved about our health-care system my whole life but I see it now slowly crumbling and it scares me and worries me," said Rachel Thexton, who waited hours for medical care after her three kids each fell sick over the past two weeks. Thexton said her children were eventually seen by doctors, who diagnosed one with pneumonia and the others with severe sinus and ear infections.
The province is battling a difficult season of illness, and measures to provide space for emergency respiratory cases will be taken, Dix said. BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver says it's triaging less-serious patients from its emergency department to a nearby area due to a surge of people with respiratory illnesses.
Dix said the current respiratory illness situation in B.C. is concerning for parents and people awaiting surgery.
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