Nearly 12,000 children are on a wait list for surgeries across Ontario.
A surge of viral respiratory illnesses, driven by a particularly bad strain of the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, overwhelmed the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, the Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre and CHEO, a health care and research facility in Ottawa.
The surgical wait list at the hospital sits at 2,332 children, Squires said, adding 69 per cent of those procedures are beyond the clinically recommended wait times. He said more specialized operating room staff, like nurses and anesthesiologists, are needed to address the situation.Get the latest local updates right to your inbox
"We need to really think about how we redesign pediatric surgery and how the service is offered across the province," said Kelley. Children's hospitals had a meeting on Thursday with Ontario Health as part of a new"surgical access" table in an effort to figure out how to tackle the surgical backlog, said Nash Syed, president of the Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre.
"It's faster than an OR, it's cheaper than an OR," Syed said."It's a perfect model, but we need to scale that up."
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