Certainly it does, but one can guarantee more than 30min wait time at some emergency rooms coming up as they are closing outright due to staffing issues.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/8-more-overnight-closures-on-the-way-f...
It's a real problem, and not just in BC. Some have argued this is a politically manufactured issue to force more talk of private care ... regardless, people are suffering in the mean time.
Most larger places publish these numbers in real-time. But the info can be very limited. Some things can wait, other things can't, and they don't publish the bucketed numbers:
