Leaked email reveals operating room closures at Saskatchewan’s largest hospital
CTV
Operating rooms at Saskatchewan’s largest hospital are closed for six days in June, according to an internal email sent to Saskatoon surgeons. A health-care worker CTV News spoke to said this is the first time they’ve seen such extensive closure to operating rooms.
Operating rooms at Saskatchewan’s largest hospital are closed for six days in June, according to an internal email sent to Saskatoon surgeons.
“There are a number of room closures for various reasons in June,” according to the email, obtained by CTV News.
“The Surgical Executive met to discuss the closures and decisions were made to minimize the impact on any one department, service or surgeon.”
The email lists which Royal University Hospital operating rooms have been closed. Surgeons’ names have been redacted by CTV News.
A health-care worker CTV News spoke to said this is the first time they’ve seen such extensive closed operating rooms.
“It’s a reduction in capacity in a system that is already strained,” they said, adding that half of the closed operating rooms are acute care rooms — which are used in emergency cases.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) blamed the closures on staff holidays.
