SickKids’ intensive care unit reached full capacity over the weekend as the hospital endured “much longer than normal” wait times in the emergency department.
A week prior, Alex Tong sat with his toddler for 15 hours waiting to be seen by a doctor in the SickKids emergency department.
He said his child’s inability to eat or drink was due to the lesions spread throughout her mouth after contracting hand-foot-and-mouth disease, a common viral infection among young children. “Our estimated wait time was 4 hours,” he said. “We were there for 15 hours before we saw a doctor and didn’t leave until Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m.”
Tong said he was looking for an explanation for what led to his extensive hospital visit – whether that be staffing issues or an increase in viral activity among children – but he said nothing unusual was raised by health-care staff, which was the “concerning part” for him.That same week, only 14 of the 109 pediatric ICU beds were available across the entire province, according to the latest provincial data published on Oct 6.
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