Eastern residents need hospital ER

Need to You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone. In this case I’m talking about an Island gem, the Kings County Memorial Hospital (KCMH). The hospital opened in 1933 and has been providing the surrounding communities with professional medical care ever since.

In the past, the hospital has been equipped with surgery and delivery units, along with inpatient and outpatient units.

KCMH has a great emergency department, which is a crucial part of providing well rounded medical care to the residents of Kings County.

Unfortunately, with the evergrowing shortage of doctors and nurses on P.E.I., the emergency room at the KCMH has been closed several times in the past few months.

This is alarming. The emergency department is essential for families on the eastern end of the Island as the emergency department in Souris has been closed. Residents of Kings County are concerned that the closure of the hospital’s emergency department may be near. As a small community, we need to join together to ensure this doesn’t happen.

Having this emergency room open cuts down the time it takes patients in critical conditions to see a doctor.

This is an issue of life and death. We need to invest in our community, and this begins with the most essential services. If we let our health care fall through the cracks, we won’t have much more to fight for.

We need to fight for us, for our children, and for our futures; no one is going to do it for us.

Carley MacLean,

Orwell Cove,

UPEI student