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COVID-19: Kitchener hospital issues warning about ‘unprecedented level of pressure’
4,061 people in Ontario hospitals with COVID, 594 in intensive care “Today we are facing an unprecedented level of pressure across our hospital,” said GRH president Ron Gagnon on Thursday.“Since the beginning of the pandemic we’ve added 146 additional beds and today, all but one — a remaining bed in our critical care — is filled.”As of Thursday, the hospital also had four active COVID-19 outbreaks which increased the challenges the hospital was facing.Gagnon said the hospital may need to begin transferring patients elsewhere but given that hospitals in other areas of the province present similar challenges, that may be no easy task.“We are working as hard and fast as we can to find available beds and team members to staff them,” said Bonnie Camm, executive vice president of clinical services.