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St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg grapples with record-breaking emergency room wait times, with seventy-five patients packed into the waiting room on a recent evening. Access block, where patients have nowhere to go due to full hospital areas, has left just a dozen treatment beds free, forcing staff to care for patients in hallways and even the waiting room. Doctors describe the situation as heartbreaking, with some staff considering quitting emergency medicine altogether. Recent patient deaths after long waits have sparked calls for a public inquiry, and nurses have raised safety concerns. Despite a recent expansion and additional staff, doctors worry there wont be enough new nurses or physicians to make it work, and they call for deeper systemic fixes to avoid worse outcomes in the future.

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