Chetwynd General Hospital closes for entire weekend
The Chetwynd General Hospital emergency department will be closed for an entire weekend from June 7th to 9th.
CHETWYND, B.C. — Residents of Chetwynd will be without emergency medical services throughout the weekend due to “staffing challenges.”
Northern Health announced a 48-hour diversion of the Chetwynd General Hospital’s emergency department in a June 6th Facebook post, citing “staffing challenges” as the cause.
The diversion is set to start at 8 a.m. on June 7th and conclude at 8 a.m. on June 9th.
People in the Chetwynd area who need life-threatening emergency care are directed to call 911 for transport to the nearest emergency medical facility.
For non-urgent care needs, patients should call the NH Virtual Primary and Community Care Clinic on 1-844-645-7811.
This is the first closure this month of a Northern Health medical facility in northeast B.C.
Emergency rooms in Dawson Creek and Chetwynd were closed for almost 30 hours during May.
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