AHS email from Dr.Verna Yiu just laid out how dire things are in #Alberta right now with COVID. See the highlights of the email below.
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"Effective immediately, AHS is postponing non-urgent surgeries and procedures across all zones...AHS will maintain urgent and emergent procedures, as well as prioritized cancer surgeries."
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"In the North Zone, surgical postponements up to 60 per cent are expected next week"
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"In the Edmonton Zone, postponements of non-urgent surgeries and procedures will increase to up to 50 percent (from 30 percent last week). In addition, pediatric surgery will be reduced by 30 per cent in order to support adult critical care."
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"Central Zone will be postponing up to 40 percent of endoscopy procedures and up to 30 per cent of scheduled surgeries.
Calgary Zone is postponing up to 30 percent of scheduled surgeries, endoscopy and outpatient visits."
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Calgary Zone is postponing up to 30 percent of scheduled surgeries, endoscopy and outpatient visits."
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"South Zone is postponing up to 30 percent of scheduled surgeries, endoscopy and outpatient visits."
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"Provincially, ICU capacity (including additional surge beds) is at 95 per cent."
*Note: This is about when you say "Oh *****!!!"
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*Note: This is about when you say "Oh *****!!!"
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"Calgary Zone is opening five beds in the Pandemic Response Unit (PRU) located at South Health Campus, to be used for day medicine patients, not COVID patients. The day medicine spaces in SHC will be used for general inpatients. This is the first use of this PRU."
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"Edmonton Zone is also preparing the PRU at the Kaye Edmonton Clinic to potentially open in the next few weeks. This space is fully equipped and has not yet been required as part of the zoneβs pandemic response."
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She also added she is not happy with the protestors: albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page16173β¦
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@jkenney Your house is on fire & you are doing absolutely nothing about it. You should have stayed in Europe. Your announcements today will be useless & our health system will be in ashes by the end of Sept.
Your leadership is abysmal. You will go down in history for this.
Your leadership is abysmal. You will go down in history for this.
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