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A newborn with a fever waited five hours to be seen by an emergency physician near Toronto.
Patients were surrounded by garbage and urine as they waited 18 to 20 hours for care at a hospital in Fredericton.
And in Alberta, Red Deer’s long-beleaguered hospital was forced to hang tarps to create makeshift treatment spaces.
Those headlines come from different hospitals and different provinces. But they all point to the same grim problem:
