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Alberta postpones even more surgeries due to overwhelming increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations
COVID-19 cases.In an update Friday, AHS CEO Dr. Verna Yiu said the health authority is taking the additional steps to create more ICU capacity, which hit 95 per cent province-wide Friday morning.“We do not make these decisions lightly and we acknowledge that postponing surgeries and procedures has a very deep impact on those impacted patients, families and their loved ones,” Yiu said.“It is imperative that we maintain capacity in our hospitals, not just for patients with COVID-19 but for any Albertan who needs care and critical care.”Postponements of non-urgent surgeries started Friday morning.