Public needs better service

Dear Editor: City of Penticton mayor and other officials connected B.C. provincial leaders:

Our mayor needs to work together with B.C. provincial leaders and B.C. doctors to vastly improve emergency room service. When one needs to go to emergency, no difference in age, it takes minimum four hours to even see any medical staff; May 9, I had that happen to me in Penticton Regional Hospital.

Another example is of an 86-year-old lady who had already waited 36 hours for a hospital bed and the only emergency department doctor had worries for other areas of that patient’s health (stated by a female doctor on a website.)

Also, recently in South Okanagan, down in Oliver, they were trying to have their grand opening for their speedway and their mayor got himself on Global News, for they didn’t have any doctors for their emergency department in case of any accidents.

Thank you to Penticton doctors who eventually went down there to help out. What did that do to Penticton’s emergency department that day?

There is a great concern by B.C. doctors interviewed (www.bcemergencycare.com/ why-this-matters) along with two other videos on that site and an area where British Columbians can comment on their emergency department experiences.

Please, please mayors, doctors, and B.C. provincial leaders, work together to change this very anxiety-ridden situation. Sheryl Ann Wilson

Penticton