Yesterday, Alberta Health Services reported that every Edmonton hospital is pushing patients into hallways in an attempt to free up space in overwhelmed emergency rooms. 🧵1/8
Hallway medicine is an urgent signal of a healthcare system in crisis. My heart goes out to all the Albertans who are being treated in a busy hospital hallway, to their families, and all the frontline healthcare professionals being forced into this situation. 2/8
Early August is supposed to be the quieter time of year for emergency rooms. I'm deeply concerned about where we will be in the early fall when respiratory illnesses and other demands on our hospitals traditionally increase. 3/8
The UCP tore up contracts and threatened workers with pay cuts. They chased family doctors out of the province leaving hundreds of thousands of Albertans with nowhere to go but the emergency room. 4/8
There are currently 29 communities across the province where the hospital is partially or completely closed due to staff shortages. 5/8
Demand on emergency rooms has led to ambulances being held up at hospitals. Red alerts, a code for when there are no available ambulances, have exploded in Edmonton and response times for ambulances have gotten worse. 6/8
No one in the UCP is addressing this crisis and no one in the leadership contest is talking about it in a serious way. We need a new approach from a new government. 7/8
An NDP government will bring real resources to the front line and will restore a respectful relationship with healthcare professionals. #AbLeg #AbHealth 8/8
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