Blood collection services will remain suspended in the Eastern Health region except in urgent circumstances for the coming week.
The reduction in lab services will allow workers to be redeployed to help with the pandemic response and process testing results.
All urgent and emergent lab testing and services will continue.
Outpatient services for patients requiring INRs (international normalized ratios), therapeutic drug-level monitoring testing, cancer care patients and monitoring of cancer clinic profiles and cancer testing will continue.
