Outaouais hospitals make changes to deal with overcrowding due to flu outbreak

Hospitals in the Outaouais region are implementing new measures to fight severe overcrowding in emergency rooms due to a flu outbreak that has pushed hospital staff to their breaking point.
The outbreak has contributed to overcrowding at the Hôpital de Hull and Hôpital de Gatineau, which were at 176 and 139 per cent capacity, respectively, Wednesday morning. At the two hospitals combined, 37 people had been on stretchers for the past 24 hours and 14 had been stuck on stretchers for 4