Emergency departments ALL use a triage system. If you turn up with acute abdominal pain, you will NOT be made to wait for hours. If you turn up with a sprained ankle, you might have a very long wait though. I once had to wait 7 hrs for an x-ray and tetanus shot after stepping on a rusty nail, which I had no problem with because the people who were prioritised ahead of me had issues like acute chest pain, or pissing blood.

As the story says, they transferred him to another hospital for the surgery, so they would not have been waiting for a bed to open up (if they were going to transfer him anyway).

Story stinks like a bucket of fish.

>Finally diagnosed after 6 hours

Not too bad for an ED, that means they ran all the tests, and got the results back, within six hours. That means he probably only had to wait an hour to be seen. Not great, but definitely normal.

>Transferred to hospital that could do pediatric surgery

Also normal, also usually takes a while because the ambulance company has to send an ambulance out to the ED and a shit-ton of paperwork needs to be done as well.

Good example of taking something normal and shouting COVID