Her name is Jamie-Lee Ball, but for five days last month during severe overcrowding at a Brampton, Ont., hospital, she was "Hallway Patient No. Although she was bleeding internally and in "excruciating pain," Ball spent five days in a hallway of Brampton Civic Hospital on a stretcher with no pillow and just three thin curtains between her and a busy public area. Having undergone major abdominal surgery in February, she worried it could be a complication and went to the emergency room at the Brampton hospital. My friend brought me flowers and I couldn't even put them on a table, because there was no room," Ball said. However, neither could explain why, despite the new investment and facility, a lack of beds still persists at Brampton Civic Hospital.

Source: CBC News April 13, 2017 22:11 UTC