The 83-year-old says he tried to get answers after he saw indications of COVID on his wing but never received an outright declaration.
A Gorge Road Hospital patient who is days from being discharged is questioning what seems to him to be secrecy about active COVID cases on his floor.
In an email on Tuesday, Island Health confirmed that the Skyview Unit at Gorge Road Hospital Long Term Care has been placed on enhanced surveillance after seven residents tested positive for COVID-19 from Dec. 17 to 26. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control dashboard shows there were 39 people in hospital with COVID as of the last update on Dec. 22, including two in critical care on Vancouver Island. In B.C., 349 people in hospital have COVID. Thirty-five of those are in critical care.
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