Nursing crunch causing cancelled heart surgeries in St. John's: union
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 09:49
in Health & Medicine
Seventeen cardiac surgeries in St. John's were cancelled in January because there were not enough nurses to work on them, a union official said Monday.
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