Niagara Health asking you to avoid emergency, try for alternatives
You're being asked by Niagara Health to avoid using emergency wards, if possible.
The Review is reporting area hospitals are among the busiest in the province, with as many as 400 visits a day.
A provincial report released on Friday indicated 90% of those going to emergency waited up to 14.3 hours, which is the average across the Hamilton/Niagara/Haldimand Brant area, an increase of 21-percent from 2021.
It adds this continues to impact how long paramedics wait before handing patients to hospital staff. 90 percent of people coming in an ambulance wait over 2 hours.
Niagara Health points out staff work as hard as possible to maintain service levels.
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