High occupancy rate at Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre: avoid the emergency room if possible

Moncton, Thursday, August 26, 2021 – For the past few weeks, staff and doctors of the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre (UHC) have been dealing with a very high occupancy rate, which causes congestion in the facility’s Emergency Department.  For a few days, the Network is asking people to minimize traffic by avoiding, whenever possible, going to the facility's Emergency Department.

Emergency Department and alternatives
The facility’s Emergency Department remains available for people who need urgent care and who wish to see a doctor. However, the Network asks people whose health condition does not require urgent care to see their family doctor or nurse practitioner, visit a walk-in clinic, see their community pharmacist or call Tele-Care (811). Unusual delays are to be expected at the Emergency Department for non-urgent cases.

The Network thanks the public for its valuable cooperation.