Ontario Hospitals Ramping Down Elective Surgeries to Treat COVID 19 Patients

ICU health-care worker Jannikka Navaratnam cares for a patient inside a negative pressure room at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Dec. 9, 2020. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

TORONTO—Ontario hospitals are being instructed to ramp down elective surgeries and non-urgent procedures in order to treat a growing number of COVID-19 patients.

Ontario Health’s president and CEO sent a memo Thursday night instructing hospitals to make the move to preserve critical care and human resources, starting Monday.