Residents fighting for emergency care at Middleton, N.S., hospital
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The emergency department is open from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. daily but staff shortages have resulted in it being closed at various times, which are posted online at Nova Scotia Health’s temporary closures page. NDP Leader Claudia Chender noted it was closed 16 days in January.
“People can’t have an emergency on a schedule,” said Annapolis Royal resident Jim Rickards. “An emergency department can’t be open certain hours and closed others.”
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“There are huge challenges in just accessing basic care, particularly because people have so little access to primary care,” Chender said. “People are feeling really frustrated and kind of helpless when it comes to just meeting their basic needs for health care and it shouldn’t be that way.”
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