Today's letters: Hospital ERs need help

Readers weigh in today on the state of hospital emergency departments. You can write to us on this or any topic, at letters@ottawacitizen.com And please see our special callout at the bottom of this article.
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ERs have become a dumping ground
Re: Why hospital ERs are so overcrowded; it’s not patients’ fault, Dec. 4.
In the late 1990s, political decisions were taken to downsize the number of Ontario hospitals and establish a new structure designed to make the supersized hospital