Tag: Health care
St. Thomas hospital warns public of long ER waits, staff shortages
St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital is asking the public to be patient as it deals with “escalating” staff shortages and a crushing surge of patients flocking to the emergency room.
Immigrants slow to connect to primary health-care provider: London researchers
Recent immigrants often face barriers to finding a family doctor, an important gap to fix as Canada welcomes tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, experts say. The research team at Western University’s Schulich school of medicine and dentistry found the family doctor disparity between newcomers and more settled immigrants by analyzing national data from the […]
Letters to the Editor: June 1, 2022
Better care, in all forms, need for older adults
Letters to the Editor: May 17, 2022
Math wizardry
Grey-Bruce health workers flying in to help Ukrainians this week
A Wiarton hospital nurse is flying to Poland tonight as part of a Canadian volunteer-led medical-aid mission into the northwestern corner of Ukraine. She’s among a handful of local health-care workers who are volunteering to help care for people displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now more than seven weeks old. Christine Moffat of Oliphant […]
CAUGHT IN COVID’S QUEUE: Pandemic’s fallout for patient wait times
‘I’m drained. I’m tired. I just want to be over with this’
Rally organizer urges Londoners to show support for health-care workers
A Western University nursing professor is calling on Londoners to come out Saturday and show their appreciation for the city’s health-care workers. “We want to bring together an event where we can show our love for the hard-working health-care workers in our community,” Abe Oudshoorn said. Oudshoorn invites everyone to bring signs expressing support for […]