RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Commonwealth College (VCU) Medical Middle is seeing a pointy improve in COVID-19 sufferers whereas combating a blood donation scarcity. With the intention to relieve among the pressures on the well being system, sure non-urgent procedures are going to be delayed.
The hospital system introduced on Monday, Jan. 3 that sufferers with non-urgent surgical procedures or procedures requiring a hospital mattress or blood donations could be contacted to reschedule their appointments.
VCU Medical Middle won’t be delaying an pressing surgical procedures. There can even not be delays to most cancers, pediatric and transplantation surgical procedures.
In accordance with VCU Well being, the hospital has a really excessive variety of COVID-19 sufferers. Nearly all of those sufferers have examined optimistic for the omicron variant. Lots of the hospital sufferers weren’t vaccinated previous to contracting the virus.
VCU Well being is urging members of the neighborhood to get vaccinated, together with getting a booster shot when eligible. In addition they ask that everybody, together with these with the vaccine, put on their masks.
Individuals who consider they might have the virus are requested to get examined for COVID-19 someplace apart from the hospital emergency room.
