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Apr 20, 2021 8:23 PM
Dream Lottery is back, helping support area hospitals and the patients and families across Southwestern Ontario that utilize them, and they’re set to sell out!
Tickets are approaching 85 per cent sold and with the Free Ticket Draw sales deadline this Thursday, Dream tickets could even be gone before the week is out.
This is welcomed news as lottery helps to fund specialized services at St. Joseph’s Health Care London, London Health Sciences Centre, and Children’s Hospital at LHSC.
Scott Fortnum President and CEO of the Children’s Health Foundation says by purchasing your Dream Lottery tickets, you’re also supporting the frontline workers at the hospitals.
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London Health Sciences Centre is expecting to take in more COVID-19 patients from overwhelmed Toronto-area hospitals, as the variant-fuelled third wave pushes local case counts to the highest levels since the pandemic began.
LHSC has opened 18 new ICU beds and could open another 17 to 20 in the coming weeks, chief medical officer Adam Dukelow said Friday, a move that could lead to further surgery cancellations.
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“It will be a very challenging two to five weeks ahead,” Dukelow said.
“Cases are rising across the province and in the city and they haven’t started to decrease yet. We know that the hospitalizations follow those case numbers by a week or so. . . . Our case numbers in hospital will continue to go up for at least a week after the community case numbers start to fall.”
“It will be a very challenging two to five weeks ahead,” Dukelow said.
“Cases are rising across the province and in the city and they haven’t started to decrease yet. We know that the hospitalizations follow those case numbers by a week or so. . . . Our case numbers in hospital will continue to go up for at least a week after the community case numbers start to fall.”
LHSC had 65 COVID-19 patients in hospital Friday, its highest total ever. Twenty eight are in the hospital’s intensive care unit. Of those ICU patients, the majority have been transferred from hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area.
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