COVID-19 pandemic.As well, the hospital network says it’s working to meet or even surpass pre-pandemic levels as it faces a surgical case backlog of roughly 6,000 as of June 21.
In some cases, patients had surgeries postponed as many as three times as hospitals reallocated resources to respond to the pandemic.“This is a number based on volume comparisons to pre-pandemic times.
It is very difficult to measure backlog, but that would be the best guess of a high estimate,” LHSC’s chief medical officer Dr.