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TORONTO - Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication and monitoring her heart rate.
A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as head intensivist Dr. Ali Ghafouri, centre, provides life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
TORONTO - Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication and monitoring her heart rate.
Holly McKenzie-Sutter
A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as head intensivist Dr. Ali Ghafouri, centre, provides life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette April 15, 2021 - 10:13 AM
TORONTO - Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication and monitoring her heart rate.
The 68-year-old woman tested positive for a COVID-19 variant shortly after arriving at Toronto s Humber River Hospital for an unrelated health concern. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she had to be placed on a ventilator, suffering a cardiac arrest after the intubation process.
Our situation is dire, top health official says as Ontario sees 4,736 new COVID-19 cases
Ontario reported 4,736 new cases of COVID-19 and a third-wave high of 29 more deaths of people with the illness on Thursday as total hospitalizations climbed to more than 1,900.
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Posted: Apr 15, 2021 10:06 AM ET | Last Updated: April 15
Registered nurse Jose Pasion tends to a patient in the intensive care unit at Scarborough Health Network’s Centenary Hospital.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Our situation is dire, top health official says as Ontario sees 4,736 new COVID-19 cases
Ontario reported 4,736 new cases of COVID-19 and a third-wave high of 29 more deaths of people with the illness on Thursday as total hospitalizations climbed to more than 1,900.
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Posted: Apr 15, 2021 10:06 AM ET | Last Updated: April 15
Registered nurse Jose Pasion tends to a patient in the intensive care unit at Scarborough Health Network’s Centenary Hospital.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)