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Sep 16 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
#StarExclusive: Ontario hospitals have been forced to close their emergency departments more than 80 times this summer, representing more than 1,700 hours when people needing urgent care couldn’t get it in their communities.
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Closures across 17 hospitals were usually between 12 and 14 hours in duration. Some were for a full 24 hours. One ER had such a severe staffing shortage that it was forced to close for three weeks.
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“I never thought we would see the day where an emergency department would close here in Ontario,” said Dr. Rose Zacharias, a 20-year emergency physician and president of the Ontario Medical Association.
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The 86 ER closures found by the Star fly in the face of the provincial government’s messaging that the health-care system is not in crisis.

“I want to be clear, Ontarians continue to have access to the care they need, when they need it,” Ford said Aug. 3.
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An ER getting overwhelmed means primary care clinics are not accessible and people aren’t able to get procedures that could have dealt with things that have now turned into acute issues, Liberal health critic Adil Shamji said.
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About 1.3 million Ontarians do not have a family doctor, according to Statistics Canada data from 2019.
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“Nurses that remain in the system are fatigued … they’re burned out from pandemic care. They’re not up to taking extra shifts,” said the CEO of Kemptville District Hospital.
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