NEW: CHEO to receive help from Red Cross staff as it deals with surge in respiratory patients ottnews
Help will arrive at CHEO next week as the children's hospital continues to see "unprecedented volumes" of young patients suffering from respiratory viruses.
The children's hospital says the Red Cross staff will be in the hospital starting next week. A Canadian Red Cross spokesperson told CTV News Ottawa details on the deployment of staff to CHEO are still being finalized. CHEO President Alex Munter said the emergency department saw 218 children on Wednesday, with 11 children waiting in the ER for a bed. The critical care and inpatient medicine units are operating at 130 per cent occupancy.
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