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Saskatoon nurses at St. Paul's Hospital are calling the emergency room overcapacity a safety hazard.

A Saskatoon mother and her disabled daughter were left waiting for three hours after calling 911 on Wednesday morning.

Kent County residents are questioning a plan to convert acute-care beds at a local hospital to long-term or palliative care beds as New Brunswick wrestles health service shortages.

"On average, every emergency physician in this province is out thousands of dollars for free work," AMA's new president of emergency medicine said in an interview.

The head of an association of Quebec ER doctors says the hospital system has become so fragile that even a small rise in the number of ER patients can have a major impact.

In a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, Manitoba Nurses Union (MNU) said the wait time at the hospital ring in at over 30 hours.

The Saskatchewan government says it's going to send breast cancer patients to Calgary for screening as the province continues to deal with medical imaging backlogs.

An action plan was announced in Saskatoon Tuesday to target hospital capacity in the city.

Doctors are sounding the alarm about overcrowding, capping any new admissions and long emergency department waits at several Edmonton hospitals.

Following a three-day hearing in June, a nursing panel has provided 141 recommendations to improve working conditions in the medical/surgical units at the 70-year-old hospital.

Earlier this year, according to critics, the McGill University Health Centre, which oversees the Lachine hospital, decided to re-evaluate how services are delivered.

Neudorf said a persistent level of COVID-19 is putting a strain on the hospital system, adding it's pushing beyond the normal urgent levels and into teetering close to crisis.

The quality process review (QPR) was done and discussed by the Quality Care and Safety of Patients Committee about two weeks after the death occurred in July 2022.

Bradford Mistakenchief's mother was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and was only given 18 months to live.

According to the Ministry of Health, Kelowna is the busiest hospital in the province and is operating at over capacity.

According to south zone medical officer of health Dr. Allison Gonsalves, with the current temperatures, frostbite can set in within 30 minutes.

The health unit is reporting a total of 14,718 COVID-19 cases Saturday, including 129 active cases, 14,339 recoveries and 250 virus-related deaths to date.

The highest number of cases in one day in Quebec was recorded on Jan. 6, 2021 with 2,880 infections. This new mark is almost 900 above that previous total.

Canada's nurses say they are burnt out and considering leaving the profession as Omicron cases continue to surge across the country, leaving them understaffed and under-resourced.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in the region sits at 14,664 with 115 active (an increase of five), 14,320 recoveries (an increase of nine) and 249 deaths.