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For the first time since the pandemic began, Ottawa hospitals are receiving critically ill COVID-19 transfer patients from the hard-hit Greater Toronto Area.
Three Ottawa hospitals have been asked to take five patients from the GTA. Over the weekend, the first of those COVID-19 patients were brought in by air ambulance and admitted to intensive care units at hospitals here, said Dr. Virginia Roth, chief of staff at The Ottawa Hospital.
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OTTAWA The Montfort Hospital is postponing five to six elective surgeries per day for the next two weeks to help free up hospital capacity as COVID-19 cases surge in Ottawa. The hospital in Ottawa s east end is the third hospital in the region rescheduling non-urgent elective surgeries that require the patient to be hospitalized. In a statement to CTV News Ottawa, the Montfort Hospital said that starting April 6, they have postponed elective surgeries for at least two weeks. These elective surgeries are considered non-urgent and require the patient to be hospitalized afterwards, said the Montfort. By the end of the day on Thursday April 8, all impacted patients will have been notified.