OTTAWA The Queensway Carleton Hospital has expanded its off-site unit at a Kanata hotel. On Thursday, the west-end hospital opened an additional floor at its off-site unit at the Fairfield Inn & Suites. The Fairfield Inn off-site unit is designed for Alternate Level of Care patients those whose acute care needs have been met but who cannot return home for a variety of reasons. Over 120 patients have stayed at the Fairfield Inn & Suites since it first opened last April. The move to expand its off-site unit at the hotel on Terry Fox Drive comes as the Queensway Carleton Hospital is currently operating at 105 per cent capacity.
29-year-old who spent weeks in ICU with COVID-19 finally heads home
Khalid Eldali contracted COVID-19 at the end of October and spent nine weeks at the Queensway Carleton Hospital, half of it in the ICU on a ventilator.
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Posted: Jan 15, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 15
Khalid Eldali (left) and his wife Asmaa Addi at the Queensway Carleton Hospital. Eldali became sick with COVID-19 and spent a month in the ICU on a ventilator.(qchfoundation.ca)
Two months and one week after going into the hospital with COVID-19, Khalid Eldali is finally able to hold his six-month old daughter again.
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OTTAWA Khalid Eldali was a healthy 29-year-old before he contracted COVID-19 and almost died from it. “I don’t remember half the stuff,” Eldali recalled in an interview from his room in the intensive care unit at the Queensway Carleton Hospital, where he’s been for two months. “The only thing I remember is waking up and I saw my wife beside me, that’s all I can remember.” Eldali contracted the virus in November. His symptoms included chest pains, a fever and a sore throat. When it became difficult to breathe, he called an ambulance. “Pretty well immediately we had to put him on a mechanical ventilator and place him on life supportive measures,” said Dr. Akshai Iyengar, the chief and medical director of the ICU at the Queensway Carleton Hospital. “He didn’t have lot of reserve time before he got super sick.”