COVID-19 pandemic.The directive aims to help “provide care for a large wave of COVID patients requiring hospitalization,” according to a tweet from OHA president Anthony Dale announcing the directive.
Ontario hospitals told to ‘ramp down’ all elective, non-emergency surgeries due to COVID-19 The directive will require London Health Sciences Centre to postpone surgeries for some of its patients.
As of Friday, the hospital network is caring for 31 inpatients with COVID-19, 14 of whom are in critical care or intensive care units.“We’re unfortunately not able to do as many operations or surgeries as we normally would be able to do,” said Dr.
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