The Emergency Room at Surrey Memorial Hospital will remain closed until at least next week due to flood damage.
Roy Thorpe-Dorwood says with the E-R being the busiest in BC, it means hundreds of patients a day being offloaded to nearby hospitals, some of which are already reporting a high workload.
“Absolutely..we have had reports for RCH and Peace Arch in particular that have seen more patients that usual, which is not surprising when you divert a couple of hundred emergency patients per day from one site.”
He says the biggest challenge so far is drying the E-R out and then assessing the damage.
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