Canadian ERs keep closing this summer but there’s no easy fix [Video]

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In mid-July, when Doug Moore’s daughter fell and hurt her wrist at the family’s property in northern B.C., he rushed the nine-year-old to the nearest hospital — only to find the emergency department had shut down. 

There was no advance notice of the closure, the Fort St. John resident recently told CBC’s Daybreak North.

“When you’ve got a nine-year-old, and it’s 9:30 at night, and she’s tired, she’s in pain … it definitely makes me nervous for my family and for those around us,” he said.

Northern B.C. has been hit hard by emergency closures again this summer. Between July 22 to July 28, there was at least one ER service interruption per day in the northern half …