Covid-19
Steady rise in Ontario's COVID-19 cases burdens hospitals with ICU admissions surge
Ontario/IBNS: Ontario's steady spike in the COVD-19 cases in the last few weeks, with a record high of nearly 800 new cases on Oct 8 requiring more patients to be treated and hospitalized, has alarmed clinicians at several already-overflowing hospital sites by adding pressure to reschedule surgeries put off during the pandemic's first wave, media reports said.
According to the data obtained by CBC News from the report prepared on Oct 8 by Critical Care Services Ontario, eight new patients across the province were admitted by end-of-day on Oct 7 to Ontario intensive care units (ICUs), that's a figure which Ontario hospitals haven't hit since June 4.
"You've got people backing up into the emergency department and hallway medicine getting worse," said Dr. Brooks Fallis, division head and medical director of critical care at William Osler Health System. "And that becomes very, very problematic in a pandemic situation," reported by CBC News.
On top of that many health care workers have been reported to be absent as they awaited their results of COVD-19 testing.
Ontario physicians as well as Toronto public health officials are calling for the earliest crucial implementation of month-long closures of hot spots like indoor dining and gyms.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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