Key health-care indicators at several major Toronto hospitals are bad or worsening. Emergency room and paramedic wait times, along with nursing vacancies, are all high.

UHN runs two ERs, at Toronto General and Toronto Western hospitals, but did not say which one was affected over the weekend.

"The things that we see in medicine, and maybe even in surgery more so, are outside the realm of normal human experience. It’s not normal to witness a 17-year-old young man die in the trauma bay or hold someone’s heart as it beats its last beat on earth."