Severe heat adds pressure to strained Canadian health care

As millions of Canadians swelter under rising temperatures, health workers warn the country’s already strained hospitals and emergency services can’t handle the influx of people with heat-related afflictions. As Jamie Mauracher explains, the easiest solutions are outside the hospital.

• Kitchener hospital delays some elective surgeries after staff COVID cases, exposures
• Heat warnings continue across eastern Canada, expected to last several days
• Heat wave could ‘cripple’ emergency services already in crisis, paramedics say