Emergency department in Oliver to undergo another temporary closure

For nan 19th clip this year, nan emergency section astatine South Okanagan General Hospital successful Oliver, B.C., will acquisition a impermanent closure.

Interior Health announced nan closure connected Friday afternoon, conscionable earlier 4 p.m., 3 hours earlier nan 12-hour closure was slated to start.

The closure runs Friday nighttime to Saturday morning, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., and is owed to constricted expert and nursing availability.

The emergency section is usually unfastened 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Interior Health patients needing emergency attraction tin entree that astatine Penticton Regional Hospital during this time.

“People successful nan organization who request life-threatening emergency attraction (i.e., thorax pains, trouble breathing, terrible bleeding) should ever telephone 911 for carrier to nan nearest disposable and due facility,” said IH.

All different inpatient services will proceed arsenic normal astatine South Okanagan General Hospital.

The impermanent emergency section closure is conscionable 1 of galore passim nan Interior Health region.

Since Jan. 1, location person been 52 impermanent closures — including 18 and counting truthful acold successful July — which Interior Health calls impermanent work interruptions.