01-04-2024, 02:05 PM
(01-04-2024, 08:00 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: I personally think that that is way to far north. You are talking about almost 300k people from Kitchener having to go to the north end of Waterloo. People will die in emergency situations. It is my understanding that this will be the only Emergency department available once the new hospital is built. If this is the case, that kind of drive time for ambulances will cost people lives. St Mary's is currently one of the best cardiac care centres in Canada. When you have a heart attack, if you go to St. Marys you have the highest chance of surviving. Part of the reason is it's central location. Once closed, your talking about decrease in survival due to additional time passed from incident to arrival at Emergency.
Then the problem is the idiotic decision to have fewer Emergency departments, not the northerly location of the new hospital. Obviously, there should be multiple Emergency departments over a city the size of ours, both for quick access and to avoid a single point of failure.