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Going to the hospital for treatment unrelated to COVID-19 during the pandemic

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As the health-care system shifts its focus to battling the novel coronavirus pandemic, hospitals are adapting to treat both the influx of patients with the virus and those with other conditions. “People are going to have heart attacks, strokes or fall and have an accident and moms are going to continue to have babies, and you can’t stop that, so you have to be prepared,” said Neil Johnson, vice president of Cancer Care for London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC).

Johnson tells Global News the focus has shifted to patients who are considered urgent and postponing treatments for patients who can wait 30 days. “We are less than 70 per cent occupied in both our critical care and all of our other areas to prepare for the COVID patients.” As LHSC

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