EMERGENCY ROOMS CLOSING NATIONWIDE

With surging demand forcing emergency room closures across the country, front-line physicians say more immediate help is needed before things get worse.

Dr. Raghu Venugopal, an emergency room physician in Toronto, says he believes the health system is not collapsing, but rather that it has “already collapsed.”

“Nurses and doctors across Ontario and Canada who are working in emergency departments are greatly dismayed, honestly, by the human situation that patients and families have to face on a daily basis,” he said.