Eastern Health has announced that emergency and urgent services in acute care facilities, as well as some services that do not rely on IT systems required for blood collection, medical imaging or pharmacy services, will proceed over the weekend and into early next week.

Patients will be contacted directly if their appointment is going ahead.

If patients are not contacted directly, they are to assume their appointments have been cancelled.

Eastern Health is currently working to reschedule appointments based on clinical priority, and is beginning to schedule some surgeries that can be performed safely.

For a list of services affected, patients can visit the IT Systems Outage webpage here.