The London Health Sciences Centre announced it is making changes to surgical volume and enforcing visitor restrictions due to COVID-19.
In a statement released Monday, the centre says it will begin ramping down elective surgeries and other non-emergent clinical activity to preserve clinical capacity as cases of COVID-19 continue to grow in the province.
Effective Tuesday, elective surgeries will be postponed. “We’re only focusing on those patients with urgent needs. Everyone else with a less urgent surgical case that’s not needed immediately is going to be deferred,” said Neil Johnson, the chief operating officer for the LHSC, speaking on the Craig Needles Show Tuesday morning.