Burn Units in Canada

[mariomike]

In case of a burn related MCI in Ontario, Canada’s largest burn centre is at Sunnybrook Hospital. It has 14 beds.

Thirty percent of patients come from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), while 70% are referred from across Ontario.

The Hospital for Sick Children "Sick Kids" is Canada's busiest pediatric burn centre with 14 beds.

When one considers a nightclub fire in Boston killed 492 , and injured 130 , that's not a lot of beds .

 

[Staff Weenie]

Compound that with the fact that these are not typically short-stay patients. I suspect some of those beds are occupied for months at a time.

 

[Haggis]

Compound that with the fact that these are not typically short-stay patients. I suspect some of those beds are occupied for months at a time.

I have an older cousin who suffered second and third degree burns over, I think, 60% of his body while 3 years old. He spent two years in a burn unit.