TORONTO The Hospital for Sick Children will begin to accept paediatric inpatients Monday from across the Greater Toronto Area in an effort to help increase capacity in acute-care hospitals. In a statement, the hospital confirmed they have been working with regional hospitals and health-care system partners to prepare to accept pediatric patient transfers. “SickKids routinely accepts paediatric patients from other hospitals and is prepared to provide safe, high-quality care to additional paediatric patients, and to maintain stable hospital capacity for children and youth from across the GTA, with minimal impacts to clinical care and regular hospital operations,” the statement said.
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Paediatric patients in GTA to be transferred to SickKids for care in effort to free space in hospitals
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Simcoe resident Garrett Readings, frustrated by the government’s response to COVID-19, says it’s time they “start looking at both sides of the conversation.”
“This is the second stay-at-home order and the third lockdown,” said Readings, who attending a No More Lockdowns protest with his wife Candice on Saturday in the parking lot of the former Zellers store. “Clearly, it’s not working. But they’re not listening to anyone going against their narrative.
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