One Canada hospital was asked to clear out its psychiatric ward to make way for mental health patients with COVID-19 after three other units maxed out capacity.
This provides further evidence that COVID-19 is lurking in inpatient psychiatric hospitals without adequate infection control procedures, putting vulnerable patients at risk.
On Friday, Montreal Gazette reported that Jewish General Hospital in Montreal was told to clear out its 48-bed psychiatric unit to make room for an overflow of COVID-19-positive mental health patients from two neighboring hospitals, Lakeshore General Hospital and Douglas Mental Health University Institute.
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