Canadian COVID-19 field hospital which didn’t treat a single patient to be shut down
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The facility was set up to deal with the ‘third wave’ of COVID-19 and to back up hospitals which were allegedly ‘severely stretched.’ It will now be shut down after treating exactly zero patients.
HAMILTON, Ontario, July 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A “last resort” field hospital set up in Canada’s Ontario province to treat overflow COVID-19 patients was ordered to be shut down last month because the military-style facility had not been needed to treat a single patient.
According to a report by Canada’s CBC News, the Ontario Ministry of Health sent out a staff memo June 30 ordering the field hospital, set up by Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), to close its doors immediately.
HHS public relations specialist Wendy Stewart affirmed that the facility, which was opened May 31 and equipped to treat up to 80 patients in eight tents, never treated a single one. She said the unit will be taken down by early September.
The memo which ordered the decommissioning lauded staff for the “tremendous amount of work [that] went into planning, constructing, staffing and equipping the state-of-the-art Hamilton Mobile Health Unit to ensure it was ready to receive patients from across Ontario if needed.”
“Hundreds of people were involved, and HHS is proud to have been part of this pandemic response initiative, along with our local, regional, provincial and federal partners,” the memo read.
Global News reported that upwards of 30 patients per week were being transferred to Hamilton from other Ontario localities in late April. In May, however, that number had already sharply declined.
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