On Friday the hospital announced it was cancelling surgeries to create capacity in its overstretched ICUs.
On Sunday,
“It was a very, very difficult decision we had to make,” Cohn told the Star. “Over the last week, things have escalated so much, with so many children requiring ICU care, and so many who are quite ill and requiring ventilatory support, that we felt like we had to create additional capacity because there is no question this will get a little bit worse before it gets better; the pressures will become higher.
These pressures, combined with a high number of kids coming to SickKids’ emergency department — there were close to 9,000 visits between Oct. 3 and Nov. 7, an increase of about 2,000 visits compared to a similar period prior to the pandemic — forced the hospital to cancel scheduled surgeries, said Cohn. He said the move is “heartbreaking for the families” and that it’s “morally distressing” for medical professionals to not do surgeries in a timely manner.
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