There are 122 children in pediatric ICUs as of Wednesday, up from 111 the day before, Critical Care Services Ontario's daily census shows. Only five children in ICUs have COVID-19. The province has a total of 112 intensive care beds for children.
to deal with an “unprecedented major surge.” It has cancelled non-urgent surgeries and redeployed staff to meet the demand. Similar situations are hitting children's hospitals in Toronto and Hamilton.
“We want to stay away from that blunt instrument and just encourage hospitals to dial them down and dial them up as needed to accommodate these surge forces,” Simpson said. Children and teens are also hitting emergency departments at a rate two-to-three times higher than usual this time of year, statistics from Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance, a real-time Ontario-wide system that monitors hospital registration records, show.
Simpson said because staffing is so tight in hospitals, the only way to deal with the surge is by redeploying staff.
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