Waterloo-Wellington hospitals to resume some same-day procedures
Hospitals in Waterloo-Wellington will soon resume some non-emergency surgeries after they were ordered to halt these procedures last month to free up capacity for COVID-19 patients.
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Posted: May 19, 2021 4:46 PM ET | Last Updated: May 20
A healthcare worker is pictured at Guelph General Hospital in April, 2021. Hospitals in Waterloo-Wellington announced Wednesday they will soon resume some non-emergency surgeries and procedures. (Paula Duhatschek/CBC)
Posted: Apr 20, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 20 I am very afraid, says Cambridge ICU manager
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1:26April McCulloch, ICU clinical manager at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, worries about the possibility of having to tell patients families that there are no beds or ventilators available.1:26
As hospitalizations and intensive-care admissions rise in Waterloo region, the ICU manager at Cambridge Memorial Hospital lives in fear of the day local resources simply run out. I am very afraid of when we have to start telling families that there s nothing we can do, and we can t help them, because we don t have a bed, we don t have a ventilator, said April McCulloch, clinical manager at Ontario s Cambridge Memorial Hospital ICU.