The latest open letter about Surrey Memorial Hospital came from its Medical Staff Association and said management at Fraser Health and the B.C. Health Ministry have not provided"any tangible support" for overstretched emergency-room doctors.
This week, a CBC report said dozens of emergency doctors from Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster and Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody — both under Fraser Health purview — also wrote a joint letter describing similarly dire situations. "We'll have things to report once we've come to agreement on that," Dix said."But what I think doctors said to me specifically is they want to be involved. And I want them to be involved because at a detail level, at a patient level, they have the insights required to make the right decisions."
Storness-Bliss said Surrey Memorial Hospital's family birthing unit was expanded a decade ago to accommodate 4,000 deliveries every year, but the facility now handles roughly 6,000 annually. The letter from the Medical Staff Association says the lack of doctors in other departments is forcing ER doctors to go"well outside their scope of practice" in providing ongoing care to admitted patients, in addition to their own emergency duties.
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