2026-06-10 from ctvnews.ca
A Metro Vancouver hospital has begun offering earplugs and eye masks to patients stuck in hospital hallways and policymakers are now considering doing the same at more sites, CTV News has learned.
The sleep aids are part of a pilot project supported by the Peace Arch Hospital Foundation at the urging of one of the facility’s doctors, who was dismayed to see the discomfort of patients, particularly the elderly.
“(Sleep) is just a basic human need,” explained Dr. Amir Behboudi, who worked with an animator to create a video recreating his epiphany of watching an older woman kept awake by bright lights and persistent noise in a hallway.
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