Warren Stuart Thirsk

The number of patients has already overwhelmed health facilities in the town of Wainwright and they're now being sent to Edmonton.

Dr Warren Thirsk, an emergency department doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, says there are more patients than anyone wants to count just now and says it's a disaster.

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Again, it goes without saying.

In terms of their next report, according to CBC News, they have spoken to Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department doctor in Alberta, and he is at Royal Alexandria Hospital in Edmonton, to be exact.

And Thurston said that Wainwright's health care facilities were completely overwhelmed by the number of patients requiring care.

Now, he also said that this number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton.

The provincial acute care agency said extremely few ambulance units were left in the Edmonton area.

An emergency doctor in Edmonton, Warren Thirsk, told the CBC this number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton.

He called it a one in every 15 to 25 year disaster.

That sentence is worth sitting with.

Well, we've just learned some pretty stark details about the emergency response called in the wake of this incident in Wainwright, and that is about 200 kilometres from where I am right now in Edmonton.

We just spoke with Dr. Warren Thirsk.

He's an emergency department physician at the Royal Alexander Hospital.

That is a downtown hospital here in Edmonton.