The CISSSMO issued a notice on its Facebook page shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday to the effect that due to high traffic, “we ask you to avoid the emergency at the Suroît Hospital and to consider, if possible , these different possibilities rather than the urgency… ”
The site Indexsanté indicates that the occupancy rate is 159% in the Valleyfield emergency room, with 51 patients on stretcher out of a capacity of 32 stretchers.
The various options in the event of an emergency are:
-450 644-4545 or 1 877 644-4545 for COVID-19 screening.
-Info-Santé at 8-1-1 – Available at all times.
-Your pharmacist.
-Your family doctor.
-The Health and Wellness Portal or the Rendez-vous santé Québec site for an appointment with a family medicine group or a GMF-Network that offers consultations without an appointment. -The website urgencesoupas.ca – https://bit.ly/3rq7wWj.
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