A hospital in southwestern Ontario says it would shut its emergency division in a single day Thursday, the most recent in numerous latest short-term ER and pressing care heart closures within the province.

Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance didn’t cite a cause for the Clinton Public Hospital’s closure in its announcement, however the group has repeatedly pushed to quickly shut three of its neighborhood hospital ERs, together with in Clinton, Ont., this 12 months because of staffing pressures.

The most recent Statistics Canada knowledge exhibits job vacancies in well being care have been at an all-time excessive throughout the nation and trending up, even because the latest enhance in labor shortages throughout different main sectors confirmed indicators of petering out.

Hamilton Well being Sciences says its pressing care heart can be closed once more on Jan. 1 due to “doctor pressures,” after it was closed for a similar cause on Dec. 25.

In the meantime, Campbellford Memorial Hospital closed its ER for many of Christmas Day citing a nursing scarcity, then once more for a number of hours on Wednesday due to what it known as an surprising doctor scarcity.