There’s a bizarre twist in the ongoing crumbling health-care saga in B.C.

1130 NewsRadio has learned some Lower Mainlanders have been driving out to Hope seeking health care, instead of going to hospitals in their own communities.

“We have heard from some of our members that they are seeing people from other parts of the Fraser Valley come to Hope for care,” explains Caelie Frampton, coordinator of policy and planning for the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU).

She outlines the major related concerns.

“That means they’re likely actually delaying getting care because they have to travel to go do that. And we’ve heard, sometimes, what will actually happen is people will be even sent back to the hospital in Abbotsford or Chilliwack because the Hope hospital is smaller, and they have limited

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