Young patients flood Surrey’s pediatric emergency room as region’s ERs overflow
Kristina Winter tried to take her son to the pediatric emergency at Surrey Memorial Hospital on Tuesday evening .“Is this the lineup to go in?” she asked someone in line. “And she’s like, ‘Yeah, we haven’t checked in yet.’ So then we left.”
In a statement to Black Press Media, Dr. Craig Murray, regional medical director of emergency medicine for Fraser Health, said hospitals in the region are experiencing a “higher-than-normal volumes of patients, including children, in our Emergency Departments.” The 2021 census from Stats Canada showed that Surrey is the fastest-growing city in Western Canada and 23 per cent of its population are children and youth. Surrey also has the highest birth rate in the province.
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