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DeSantis Orders Cancellation Of All Elective Surgeries
March 21, 2020
In order to provide relief to hospitals that are, or might be, stretched thin due to the coronavirus, Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered the cancellation of all elective surgeries.
“All hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, office surgery centers, dental, orthodontic and endodontic offices, and other health care practitioners’ offices in the state of Florida are prohibited from providing any medically unnecessary, non-urgent or non-emergency procedure or surgery which, if delayed, does not place a patient’s immediate health, safety or wellbeing at risk, or will, if delayed, not contribute to the worsening of a serious or life-threatening medical condition,” the governor’s office said.
The order continues until the end of the current COVID-19 State of Emergency.
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4 Responses to “DeSantis Orders Cancellation Of All Elective Surgeries”
Hoping this includes abortions! Hospitals are so short on PPE’s! They don’t need to be wasted on taking live, but saving lives!
Any elective surgery should be conducted in a controlled sterile environment with pre-screening which would catch victims of the virus I think it’s time to put brakes on the governor’s authority in this matter.
It’s to minimize exposure, which is the only way, so far, to even slow this thing down. Drastic times call for drastic measures.
Gotta love healthcare hijacked by the government, which is then restricted, divided-up, and doled-out by a bunch of elected fools. Never mind your premium payments to your to the insurance company and have been approved for a procedure that may save your life (colonoscopy for example); your medical care no longer matters. I can only hope for the best and that this pandemic passes quickly, so life can return to so sense of normalcy.