Unplanned closings have hit more than a third of B.C.’s ERs since the start of 2023, with short-term workers and virtual ERs helping fill in the gaps

A sign points the way to the emergency room at the hospital in Kitimat, B.C. The hospital’s ER crisis peaked in January, 2024, when it was shuttered for almost 250 hours.

Don Glasgow is lucky he had a heart attack on April 24.

Had his organ faltered after 7 p.m. a day earlier or a day later, he would have found the doors locked at his nearest emergency department in Lillooet, a mountain town about two hours from Kamloops.

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