Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) has begun to ramp-up scheduled surgeries and procedures that were paused in mid-March when the provincial government directed hospitals to stop non-urgent procedures to prepare for a potential surge of COVID-19 patients.
RVH says it has a 5-Phase Recovery Plan.
It says Phase 1 of the plan, focused on scheduled surgical procedures, endoscopy and interventional cardiology, received government approval late last week and began yesterday.
Other procedures will be ramped-up in the coming months as the next phases of the recovery plan are approved.
For more information on the 5-Phase Recovery Plan, please click here.
OSMH is also starting elective surgeries again, for more details on that story, please click here.
Today marks the beginning of Phase 1 of RVH's surgical ramp up. We are now starting to schedule some surgical procedures, endoscopy and interventional cardiology. Other procedures will be rescheduled in coming months. pic.twitter.com/yT0jSY1Vlh
— Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (@RVH_HealthCntr) June 8, 2020