2024-07-08 from cbc.ca

The mayor of Merritt, B.C., is fed up over the fifth ER closure this year of the Nicola Valley Hospital and says he'll be sending the province a bill for the continued closures. 

"This has been a problem we've been dealing with quite a lot quite often," said Mike Goetz, adding that Nicola Valley's ER closed 19 times last year.

"We're going to be at 41 C today. We were at 38 C yesterday," Goetz said Monday. "These are temperatures that can become dangerous. So it's really the worst possible time that our hospital could be closed." 

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