As AHS lifts restrictions, it must strike a balance between healthcare services and plans for future waves of COVID-19
The Misericordia Community Hospital, pictured on July 8, 2020 in Edmonton is no longer admitting patients due to a new outbreak of COVID-19.The waiting list for elective surgeries in Alberta has grown by 10 per cent since the medical system focused on containing the novel coronavirus at the expense of addressing other ailments, according to provincial health officials.
Alberta, like other jurisdictions in Canada, restricted access to some services such as surgeries and tests to make room in hospitals for an expected crush of COVID-19 patients. But in Alberta, the deluge never came. Now, as AHS lifts restrictions and plans for future waves of the disease, it must create a balance between the services it provides and the need to quickly respond to bursts of COVID-19 cases, the advisory group said.
AHS removed the report, dated July 7, from its website after The Globe and Mail inquired about its contents. Tom McMillan, a spokesman for Alberta Health, said some of the figures in the report were based on incomplete data and therefore inaccurate. He would not specify which figures were wrong.
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