Windsor Regional Hospital and Erie Shores Healthcare are going to start doing non-urgent day surgeries again.
The province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health has rescinded his directive to stop these types of procedures.
The hospitals are now implementing a local plan to resume procedures that do not require an in-patient stay or bed post-surgery.
“As we cautiously resume non-urgent and non-emergent surgeries and procedures, we are working to find ways to operate beyond our standard capacity over the coming months to reduce the backlog created by this and previous COVID waves,” said ESHC Chief of Staff Dr. Ross Moncur.
Staff and surgeons are asking the thousands of people waiting to have procedures completed to continue to have patience.
“This will be a gradual and incremental restoration of more elective surgeries which will take many weeks, especially when you consider the volume of procedures that needed to be rescheduled and the need for preoperative care that has been on hold,” said Windsor Regional Hospital Chief of Staff Dr. Wassim Saad. “Please be patient while we take the steps necessary to continue a safe, slow and incremental approach to gradually addressing the needs of all of our patients and their loved ones.”
All patients waiting to have procedures rescheduled are asked to wait to be contacted by their doctor.
