Researchers sought to quantify cancer surgical backlog and determine whether there were differences in sociodemographic and hospital characteristics among patients undergoing cancer surgery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 11, 2021 16:01
Canadians joined others around the world today to mark the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic–a pandemic that has now taken over 2.6 million lives.
It began in Canada a year ago in January and has never really let up, though there have been ebbs and flows as Canadians tried to cope with the heartbreak of losing loved ones separated and isolated behind institutional walls–at hospitals and long-term care homes–walls that families were not permitted to breach to share love and to offer comfort, lest the pandemic gain more strength.
Published Tuesday, March 9, 2021 5:54PM EST Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is in the process of setting up a mobile field hospital in its parking lot as it prepares to deal with a possible third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, the Trudeau government promised to set up two of the specialized mobile field hospitals in the GTA in order to add 200 beds to the hospital system. The 100-bed facility being set up in Sunnybrook s parking lot is one of the promised facilities, CTV news Toronto learned Monday, and is meant to help bolster the region’s health-care system against being overwhelmed.
TORONTO A mobile field hospital with 100 patient beds will operate out of the parking lot of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as soon as April to help alleviate third-wave pandemic pressure on Toronto’s intensive care units. CTV News Toronto has learned that one of two mobile medical centres promised to the Greater Toronto Area by the federal government is currently being set up in a now-empty surface staff parking lot at Sunnybrook’s Bayview Avenue campus. The field hospital, made by Weatherhaven Global Resources, is designed for the frontline fight against COVID-19, and features ventilators, oxygen machines, portable x-ray machines, and even a negative-pressure system that cleans air every two minutes.
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