Fresh Start Surgical Gifts is accepting applications for the surgeries that will be performed on June 24 and 25.

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) As elective surgeries get the green light to resume, some patients may have concerns about getting surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, COVID-19 sidelined her knee replacement surgery twice. As elective surgeries begin to resume, some doctors are recommending their patients have surgery now in case there is another spike in COVID cases. We are testing all of our patients for COVID before they come in for surgery, said Dr. Patel. With the pause in elective surgeries, experts say it may take up to three or four months to resolve the back log of surgeries.

AUSTIN, Texas Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday issued an executive order to suspend all elective surgeries in Bexar County along with three other counties in the state, a press release said. The executive order suspends elective surgeries in Bexar, Dallas, Harris and Travis counties and was done to ensure hospital bed availability for COVID-19 patients as the state faces an increase in coronavirus cases. Abbott also has the potential to add or subtract from the list of counties included in the order to address surges in hospitalizations that may arise in other parts of the state. As Texas faces a rise in COVID-19 cases, we are focused on both slowing the spread of this virus and maintaining sufficient hospital capacity for COVID-19 patients, said Abbott. These four counties have experienced significant increases in people being hospitalized due to COVID-19 and todays action is a precautionary step to help ensure that the hospitals in these counties continue to have ample supply of available beds to treat COVID-19 patients.