KINGSTON --
As COVID-19 cases surge across the province, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) says its ready to take in hospital patients from regions hit hardest by the virus.
On Thursday, Ontario Health announced hospitals across the province are being instructed to prepare to accept COVID-19 patients from different cities as case numbers spike and space in intensive care units reaches capacity.
Dr. David Pichora, president of Kingston Health Sciences Centre, says the region has a dozen of its 77 critical care beds available, as of Saturday afternoon.
"It very well could be COVID patients," Dr. Pichora tells CTV News Ottawa. "It’s medicine or surgery patients, ICU, non-ICU, COVID, non-COVID, it’s whatever will make a difference to the hospitals that are really overwhelmed."