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My friend recently had a stroke and went to the U of A Hospital where he sat 14 hours in the waiting area then admitted. He spent the next three days in a gurney in the hallway. When he got home he developed COVID, which he probably obtained lying in the hallway for three days.
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A couple of weeks later he passed away. I have been listening to arguments why our health care is bad for the past 30 years. Interesting fact: last hospital to be built in Edmonton was the Grey Nuns, 1988.
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Since then the population of Edmonton has doubled. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to see why our health care system is failing.
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