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In Canada, the healthcare scene is at risk as there is a huge shortage of nurses.
The situation is serious, with emergency rooms and intensive care units closing, and patients having to wait for a long time to see the medical staff.
Reporter Eun-Kyung Lee from Vancouver, Canada will tell you what it is.
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More than 200 emergency rooms and intensive care units were closed across Canada this summer, according to the Federation of Canadian Nurses (CFNU).
The amount of time patients wait to see medical staff has also increased significantly.
Canada’s health care system is in such a crisis because the number of nurses has been greatly reduced.
[에이미 이어하트 / 응급실 간호사 : 간호사가 부족해서 환자들이 응급실에서 여섯 시간을 대기하고 있습니다. 누구도 이렇게 오래 기다릴 필요는 없었어요.]
[파티마 모하메드 / 중환자실 간호사 : 간호사가 부족한데, 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 간호사들이 아프기까지 해요. 이런 현실이 반복되면서 대기 환자들은 넘쳐 흐르고 있죠.]
The shortage of nurses is attributed to the large number of baby boomer nurses who have retired and the increase in retirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[성영주 / 간호사 : 제가 아는 두 분도 65세까지 한다고 했는데 일찍 은퇴하셨어요. 나 자신의 건강, 내가 어떻게 될지 모르고 나로 인해서 내 가족이 어떻게 될지 모르는 그런 위험에 대한 두려움….]
As of the first quarter of this year, it was estimated that there was a shortage of regarding 137,000 nurses across Canada.
The workload of the remaining nurses increased that much.
According to the results of a recently released survey, one in four nurses is willing to change jobs within three years, indicating that the shortage of nurses is likely to worsen.
The Canadian government recently revived the federal chief nurse, which it had removed 10 years ago, and said it would listen to the voices of nurses and address the shortage of manpower.
Each state has also taken measures, such as subsidizing education costs for nursing personnel who want to immigrate to Canada.
[박희태 / 공인 이민 컨설턴트 : 최근 브리티시 컬럼비아주는 비숙련 간병인이라 할지라도 낮은 점수로라도 이민할 수 있도록 특혜를 주고 있습니다. 연방정부도 작년에 간호 인력 등 필수 의료인력 확충을 위한 대책을 가동했고….]
However, as we have already entered the third year of the outbreak of COVID-19, and the nurse community has consistently raised its voice, some point out that the government should respond more quickly.
Patients who want timely treatment and nurses in the field who are suffering from overwork are all hoping that the problem will be resolved as soon as possible.
This is Eunkyung Lee from YTN World in Vancouver, Canada.
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