BY THE NUMBERS

Final repairs and cleaning of the Northern Lights Regional Health Centre are still underway, but the hospital that serves the Fort McMurray region has resumed offering many core services and reopened beds in several units. David Matear, the centre’s operating director, said the acute-care side of the hospital is running at about 50-per-cent capacity. Matear said he believes the hospital will be fully operational by the goal of June 21.

Here are a few statistics about the reopening the hospital:

152 people visited the emergency room June 15. The first day of the re-entry, June 1, the hospital had 23 emergency-room visits, a number that has been steadily climbing. Before the wildfire, about 170 to 190 people visited the emergency room per day.

14 in-patients were receiving care at the hospital on the morning of June 16.

30 beds are open in the emergency department. Beds in several other parts of the hospital have also been readied, including three in the intensive care unit, 10 in the surgical ward, six in the maternity and child unit, three in pediatrics and 10 beds in the medicine unit.

2 of the hospital’s seven operating rooms are open. Surgery is one of several core services that has resumed, along with medical and surgical in-patient care, the intensive care unit, obstetrical, pediatric and psychiatry services. Matear said cancer and dialysis patients are being asked not to return until June 20.

17 primary-care practitioners are back working in the community as of June 16. Matear said the hospital is currently “overstaffed” for the number of beds open because the hospital wants to be fully prepared for an influx of patients as residents continue to make their way back to Fort McMurray.

600 people, including both contractors and regular staff, are estimated to have been working on repairing, cleaning and preparing the hospital to reopen. Matear said that while the hospital wasn’t damaged by fire, extensive work had to be done to repair water and smoke damage.