From 1 January to 8 May 1945, the Hospital handled a total of 7695 patients, a figure which would rise to 8339 less than a month later. Although it had officially been given the designation and T/O & E of a 1000-bed unit, during times of stress it was expanded to a total of 1701...
At noon 29 July 1944, orders were received to depart from the area and everyone proceeded afoot to the docks, approximately six miles away. Duffel bags and other packs were transported. After a short wait at the docks, all male personnel boarded the “Llangibby Castle” (former passenger li...
I just really can’t understand the fuss about Victoria council’s extremely important initiative to “reduce the stigma around periods and work towards menstrual equity.” Yes! Bathe City Hall in red lights and hoist the “period flag”… what could be more pressing in...
Nurses’ Union rally in front of Victoria General Hospital on Sunday. “I have no energy left after 12 hours giving everything to this health-care system.” Brendt’s two children were also at the rally, wearing hand-made signs. Naira Tzavkov, 10, had a sign that said: “To...
Female Times: Strokes Can Strike the Young Too; with the Royal Victoria Hospital Planning to Develop Its Services for Stroke Patients and Ahead of a Major Conference at the Waterfront Hall Which Will Look at New Horizons in Stroke Care, LARA BRADLEY Discovers That Strokes Don't Just Happen to...
in the flow model the demand-supply variablebi(t) is larger than 0 in the triage nodes during the first four days after the earthquake. We considered that patients wait in triage zones to until an operating room is available in the hospital or until they are transferred to other hospitals....
For four days Roberts was parked in the hallway outside the garbage and laundry room. He said someone would come by every day with 12 to 15 bags to put into the room. Roberts added one morning he had to move his food tray seven times. ...
“They tie up a bed in Kelowna and they still wait three or four days for their procedure in an ICU or a step-down bed in a tertiary hospital. That’s not good for anybody.” He said there is no simple solution with an aging building and skyrocketing construction costs. ...
As a Crown prosecutor for three decades, Victoria’s Samantha Hulme has a thick skin. But seeing her father, who has Alzheimer’s, in hospital with too few people to care for him or clean his room broke her. “I love my parents so much, and I know everyone does, and the he...
Wilma Wait Hansel H. Walden Vera Woolfson Winter view of destructions caused to the 28th General Hospital, Liège, after being hit by a V-1 buzz-bomb 9 January 1945. Physio-Therapy Service 1st Lieutenant Elma L. Georg, PTA, M-544 > Physio-Therapist ...