Military help for pandemic-hit Ontario hospitals starts at Sunnybrook in Toronto on Friday
Canadian military health-care and other personnel will start helping Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre s field hospital and ICU in Toronto starting Friday, part of its deployment to Ontario hospitals strained under COVID-19 caseloads. Talks are ongoing about Hamilton s and other hospitals needs.
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Posted: Apr 29, 2021 12:34 PM ET | Last Updated: April 29
At St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton there are 46 patients currently admitted with confirmed COVID-19 while seven staff and physicians have been hospitalized with the illness.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
There are another 230 new cases in Hamilton as of Wednesday, and four more people have died.
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There are 1,639 active COVID-19 cases in Hamilton, according to city data.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
There are another 230 new cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton as of Wednesday, and four more people have died.
The Ministry of Health says the number of cases may be higher due to a data catch up. Hamilton Public Health says it s been working with the ministry since Friday to identify and resolve the cause. In the interim, Hamilton Public Health Services staff are working diligently to manually enter new cases, however this has resulted in some delays and underreporting of cases over the past several days, said a public health spokesperson.
TORONTO A coalition of COVID-19 task forces and doctors serving racialized and ethnic communities across Canada have banded together to launch the âThis is our Shotâ campaign, aiming to battle vaccine hesitancy and encourage Canadians to get inoculated. The organizations behind the movement, which include the South Asian COVID Task Force, Siksika Health Services, The Canadian Muslim COVID-19 Task Force and the Black Health Initiative, created the campaign out of a desire to make sure public health messaging was getting through to underserved communities. âWe had this perspective of using our community connections, our knowledge of our cultures to help get the prevailing public health messaging out, both through traditional media, cultural ethnic mediums and through digital mediums that we know that our communities partake in,â said campaigner and trauma and emergency physician at Hamilton Health Sciences Dr. Dashminder Singh Sehdev in a telephone inte
Posted: Apr 27, 2021 1:52 PM ET | Last Updated: April 27
Ottawa is considering sending armed forces personnel to help at the Hamilton Health Sciences field hospital. (Talia Ricci/CBC)
The federal government is considering sending extra people such as members of the Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Red Cross and other groups to help at field hospitals at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS).
Stephen Warner, a spokesperson for Ontario s Solicitor General s office, said on Tuesday that the province has asked the federal government find more people to help Ontario deal with the surge of patients filling intensive care units (ICUs).