COVID-19 in the community could further hamper the hospital’s efforts to catch-up on a backlog of surgeries and procedures created by the pandemic.Bruce Squires told Global News that a mid-March hold on non-essential surgical procedures – to free up bed space and limit the spread of the virus in hospitals – resulted in the cancellation of 58 per cent of surgeries and 70 per cent of procedures at McMaster Children’s.“We saw the number of kids that were waiting beyond what we would call a clinically acceptable wait time,” Squires said.
Ontario reports 625 new coronavirus cases as province continues on upward trend “The short version of that, waiting too long went up by 133 percent.