Premiers to hold virtual news conference on struggling children’s hospitals | 24CA News

Canada’s premiers plan to carry a web-based news convention in the present day as youngsters’s hospitals battle to take care of a wave of sicknesses.

The news convention will likely be chaired by Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson in Winnipeg beginning at midday CT.

Hospitals throughout the nation have been cancelling some surgical procedures and appointments as they redirect employees because the variety of pediatric sufferers will increase.

Admissions are surging underneath a triple menace of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza and COVID-19 at a time when the health-care system is grappling with document numbers of job vacancies.

In Ottawa, two Canadian Red Cross groups are working rotating in a single day shifts on the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario to assist its medical care workforce, whereas some sufferers have been redirected to grownup health-care services.

A pediatric hospice in Calgary has been briefly closed as employees are diverted to a youngsters’s hospital.

Members of the Alberta Medical Association have despatched a letter to the province’s appearing chief medical officer of well being, calling for stronger public well being measures to forestall the unfold of the sicknesses, together with rising public messaging in regards to the security of vaccines, encouraging flu and COVID-19 vaccines, and briefly requiring masks in colleges.