Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Hamilton’s McMaster Children’s Hospital have not requested staff support from outside organizations
, but say they continue to redeploy staff and cut back on surgeries to help backstop stretched critical-care units.
Meanwhile, the Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre says it does not require assistance from external organizations. CHEO says two teams of nine Canadian Red Cross personnel are arriving at the Ottawa pediatric hospital this week to work rotating overnight shifts in support of its clinical-care teams.Pediatric hospitals across Ontario have for weeks reported surging admissions as they contend with a triple-threat of respiratory syncytial virus, the seasonal flu and COVID-19.
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