coronavirus pandemic put pressure and strain on the Nova Scotia health-care system.“When Nova Scotians who need nursing home care, home care or other services and supports to live on their own, and are waiting in a hospital bed, it can have a ripple effect across the larger healthcare system,” Vickie Sullivan, director of operations in the central zone for Nova Scotia Health, said in a news release.
Nova Scotia deploys mobile COVID-19 testing unit, the first in Atlantic Canada According to NSHA spokesperson Carla Adams, there are around 150 patients waiting in hospital to transition back to the community.“Nova Scotia Health will move patients as they are assessed as appropriate for transfer to this unit,” Adams said.The new unit is a way.