Corona Sirens

by Allen Forrest / May 23rd, 2023

If this is going on at Surrey Memorial Hospital  in British Columbia Canada where else is it going on?

“These patients take up beds and nursing support that would normally be used to treat incoming emergencies. This bed-block forces us to routinely treat strokes, heart attacks, traumas, miscarriages and palliative patients in the hallway.”

— “Visitor ‘overwhelmed’ by crowded emergency at Surrey Memorial Hospital,” Vancouver Sun, 18 May 2023

Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue College Foundation's permanent art collection in Bellevue, WA. He lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Read other articles by Allen, or visit Allen's website.

This article was posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 at 6:15am and is filed under Cartoon, COVID-19, Health/Medical.