{"id":4048,"date":"2023-12-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2023-12-24T16:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T21:39:23","slug":"extreme-shortages-expected-at-n-s-emergency-departments-over-the-holidays-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/extreme-shortages-expected-at-n-s-emergency-departments-over-the-holidays-union\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extreme shortages\u2019 expected at N.S. emergency departments over the holidays: union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest union in Nova Scotia says \u201cextreme shortages\u201d are expected in emergency departments during the holidays as many health-care workers are off work and there aren\u2019t enough staff to cover absences.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Mullen, president of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, said the issue is especially pronounced at the Halifax Infirmary, one of the busiest hospitals in the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest union in Nova Scotia says \u201cextreme shortages\u201d are expected in emergency departments during the holidays as many health-care workers are off work and there aren\u2019t enough staff to cover absences.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Mullen, president of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, said the issue is especially pronounced at the Halifax Infirmary, one of the busiest hospitals in the province.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/extreme-shortages-expected-at-n-s-emergency-departments-over-the-holidays-union\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Extreme shortages\u2019 expected at N.S. emergency departments over the holidays: union<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[774,96,663,770,217,23,775,218,771,308,772,769],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-annapolis-royal","tag-canada","tag-dartmouth","tag-emergency-room-closures","tag-halifax","tag-hospitals","tag-lunenburg","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nova-scotia-government-and-general-employees-union","tag-nova-scotia-health","tag-nsgeu","tag-staffing-shortages","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}