Quebec hospital ERs at over 100 per cent capacity for 10 days straight [Video]

Parents sending their children to school this week should be thankful that they are not sending them or anyone else in the family to one of Quebec’s hospital emergency rooms.

The website Index Sante reported on Wednesday that ERs across the province are running at 111 per cent capacity, with Montreal at 136 per cent.

Quebec ERs have not been below 100 per cent capacity since Aug. 18, when they were at 98 per cent.

Two hospitals in Montreal and one in Lanaudiere have over 200 per cent capacity.

Montreal ERs bursting

LaSalle Hospital is the lone non-specialist hospital with an ER capacity of under 100 per cent at 73 per cent.

The MUHC Royal Victoria Hospital (224 per cent) and Jewish General Hospital (223 per cent) are at the other end of that spectrum.

At the Royal Vic, 11 patients have been waiting for over 48 hours on stretchers and 33 for a day. There is an average wait …