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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Anna Mehler Paperny

Canadian hospitals, strapped for staff, strain with sick children

FILE PHOTO: A general view of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 14, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo

Canadian hospitals are straining to care for an influx of sick children, many with respiratory illnesses, in the midst of staffing constraints and as a shortage of children's over-the-counter medication sends more kids to hospital.

Hospitals across the country are reassigning staff to pediatric care and putting children in other parts of hospitals, from post-partum to adult wards, to grapple with the increased volume of young patients.

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