People admitted to Whitehorse General Hospital after Oct. 6 who remain in care there through today, will have to leave the hospital to vote in today's federal election.

Kevin Moore told the Star last Friday afternoon that his mother, Ruth, is one of those individuals.

"Do people in the hospital not have the right to vote?" asked Moore.

"For (my mother) to get to a polling station, it's going to involve an ambulance, heart monitor, doctor and a nurse."

Moore's mother, who has been back and forth between hospitals in Whitehorse and Vancouver to treat a heart condition, missed the advance poll at Whitehorse General Hospital (WGH).

According to Sue Edelman, chief returning officer for the Yukon, the advance poll visited WGH on Monday of last week and Whitehorse Correction Centre Oct. 3.

Today, a mobile polling station will visit the Copper Ridge Place and Macaulay Lodge long-term care facilities, but there will be no stop at WGH.

"We do the hospital by special ballot ... that's so we can enable people in our hospital who may be from another jurisdiction to vote," Edelman said today, adding the procedure is policy across Canada

"The unfortunate thing is you can't plan needing to go to the hospital."

Calls to WGH to determine how many patients are affected were not returned as of press time this afternoon.