![]() You’ve to got to figure out how to get those nurses back,” said Bokhout, who calls Clinton home. “The only thing they could do, besides work, was to quit, and a lot of them did. Maarten Bokhout, a former physician and medical officer of health for Huron County, said bringing back burnt out nurses, and possibly returning their right to strike, could be a quick fix to the nursing shortage. Walkerton’s ER has closed 20 times and Seaforth has closed 17 times. The Durham Hospital ER has been closed 51 times this year, and Wingham’s ER 31 times. Hospitals surrounding Chesley and Clinton have not been immune. Sooner or later, it’s going to catch up to us, and it’s going to cost someone their life,” said Central Huron Mayor, Jim Ginn. “We’re fortunate we have an ambulance station here in Clinton, so that helps somewhat, but I liken it to Russian roulette. For those groups, advice to just drive down to the nearest hospital down the line is not as easy as it sounds,” explained Brenda Scott, leader of the Save the Chesley Hospital Citizen’s Group. We have number of Mennonite and Amish families, as well. ![]() “In Arran-Elderslie we have many retirees and seniors. Leading the way is midwestern Ontario, with chronic and ongoing closures at emergency rooms in Clinton and Chesley that have lasted more than four years. On 316 occasions, an urgent care centre closed its doors.Ĭlosures spread to outpatient labs, obstetrics, labour and delivery, and ICU, according to the report - it is equivalent to 31,055 hours of lost care. The Ontario Health Coalition report points to 868 times that an Ontario emergency room was closed due to a shortage of staff, so far this year. This is horrifying,” said NDP health critic, France Gelinas, outside Queen’s Park on Tuesday. “Our hospital emergency rooms are the safety net of our healthcare system, and 1,199 times in Ontario in the last year, they were closed. That risk is contained if the plume stays on the company’s site, which Xcel Energy and Minnesota officials said is the case.More than 1,000 times this year, an Ontario hospital emergency department or urgent care centre closed its doors because there weren’t enough nurses to fill shifts. The amount of leaked material never reached a threshold requiring public notification and they waited to make a public announcement until they had more information, officials said.Įdwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists, told The Associated Press last week that a significant health risk only would occur if people consumed fairly high amounts of tritium. ![]() Minnesota regulars said last week that Xcel Energy voluntarily notified state agencies and reported the leak of tritium to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission soon after it was confirmed in November. The agencies said they will continue to monitor groundwater samples and will inform the public if there is an imminent risk. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Health released a statement Thursday saying they were told of the new leak Thursday afternoon and that it is ongoing. It emits a weak form of beta radiation that does not travel far and cannot penetrate human skin, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that occurs naturally in the environment and is a common by-product of nuclear plant operations. The leaked water remains contained on-site and has not been detected in any local drinking water, Xcel Energy said. Operators discovered that, over the past two days, the temporary solution was no longer capturing all of the leaking water, Xcel Energy said. However, monitoring equipment indicated Wednesday that a small amount of new water from the original leak had reached the groundwater. The solution was designed to prevent new tritium from reaching the groundwater until installation of a replacement pipe during a regularly scheduled outage in mid-April, the company said. “We are continuing to work with and inform our state, federal, city and county leaders in the process.”Īfter the first leak was found in November, Xcel Energy made a short-term fix to capture water from a leaking pipe and reroute it back into the plant for re-use. “While the leak continues to pose no risk to the public or the environment, we determined the best course of action is to power down the plant and perform the permanent repairs immediately,” said Chris Clark, president of Xcel Energy–Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
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