COVID-19 Omicron wave is set to resume normal operations on Thursday.Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) says the West End Urgent Care Clinic on Main Street East at Macklin Street South will go back to offering seven-day a week care again on March 24.“If you’re experiencing an illness or injury that isn’t an emergency but can’t wait for an appointment with a family doctor, an urgent care centre is a good option for you,” emergency medicine chief Dr.
Kuldeep Sidhu said in a statement.The clinic had been shuttered for close to ten weeks after five emergency-trained physicians, 10 nurses and other staff (clerks, environmental aides, etc.) were moved to other emergency departments (EDs) and other high priority facilities in the network.
Hamilton’s West End Urgent Care Clinic to close, redeploy ‘urgently needed’ staff due to COVID-19 surge Sidhu said an influx of patients requiring admission to acute wards and staffing shortages during the Omicron surge was the reason for the shut down on Jan.
14.The reactivation of the facility means those needing things like stitches for wounds, simple broken bone treatment as well as some X-ray and laboratory services can check into the clinic as of noon Thursday.Hamilton has two urgent care centres, including St.