Quebec Doctors Say Emergency Room Overcrowding Is Putting Patient Health at Risk

Quebec Doctors Say Emergency Room Overcrowding Is Putting Patient Health at Risk
An ambulance pulls out of the emergency entrance of a hospital in Montreal, on Dec. 29, 2021. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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Emergency room doctors in Quebec say overcrowding in hospitals has reached dangerous levels.

Dr. Judy Morris, head of an association of Quebec ER doctors, says occupancy rates are as high as they’ve ever been, and some hospitals regularly have twice as many ER patients as they can handle.