Horizon Health Network says dining and storage spaces are also being used as hospitals face “difficult choices” about where to put patients.
Health authority says the measure is a symptom of severe strain hospitals face
Savannah Awde · CBC News
· Posted: Jan 08, 2026 4:44 PM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
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Some patients are being housed in an ambulance bay at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, with curtains used to separate patients. (Submitted by David Coon)
New Brunswick’s premier says treating hospital patients in an ambulance bay is not acceptable, but the alternative is no care at all.
A makeshift unit in an ambulance bay of the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton has been in use for at least a year, Health Minister John Dornan confirmed on Thursday.
But conditions on the unit came into the public eye on Wednesday, when Katarina Lekborg, a registered nurse who lives and works in Fredericton, posted an open letter to the premier on Facebook.
Lekborg said her 88-year-old grandmother was admitted to the hospital this week with delirium and taken by stretcher into an area called “the MTU,” which stands for medical transition unit.
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