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Several Montreal emergency rooms are operating at more than 200 per cent capacity as extreme heat adds pressure to an already strained health-care system. Health ministry data shows hospitals including Lakeshore General and the Royal Victoria Hospital are among the facilities dealing with severe overcrowding.Dr. Greg Clark, an emergency physician with the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), says ERs have been functioning at around 200 per cent capacity during different busy periods for the past two to three years, making overcrowding a year-round challenge rather than a seasonal one.While summer heat is bringing more patients to hospital with respiratory problems…

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