‘Absolutely no privacy’: Patient treated in hospital hallway for two days – CTV
October 03, 2025
A recent surge in patients at a Saskatoon hospital forced treatment to spill out into the hallways.
Lynn Harmon took her mother to the emergency department at Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital (RUH) last week. Her mom was experiencing serious chest pain, Harmon explained.
“It wasn’t a tremendously long wait inside the emergency room, but it was in the hallways, afterwards,” she told CTV News.
Harmon says her mother received care in a hospital hallway for two days before she was moved to an inpatient bed in her own room.
Video and photos taken by Harmon show two hallways lined with stretchers and machines plugged into extension cords. Some beds were separated by mobile dividers. Others weren’t.
“There was absolutely no privacy,” said Harmon, adding the hallways were “very congested” and appeared to be used as a main thoroughfare for other hospital staff and visitors.
“My mom, who has a compromised immune system, was next to people who were there supposedly with viral infections,” she said.
At one point, Harmon said people were passing by as her mother’s chest was exposed during her EKG.
