Manitoba COVID-19 vaccine bulletin – 73
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 05/04/2021 at 11:54 am
Vaccine eligibility is expanding to include all adults aged 18 and older who live or work in specified jobs in the Winnipeg communities of River East South, St. Vital North and Seven Oaks East.
Eligible jobs in these communities include:
kindergarten to Grade 12 schools;
child-care providers;
anywhere that serves food (e.g. restaurants or food banks).
In total, there are 14 communities with expanded eligibility criteria including:
Prairie Mountain Health – Brandon East End and Brandon Downtown;
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority – Inkster West, Fort Garry South, Seven Oaks West, Downtown East, Point Douglas South, Inkster East, Point Douglas North and Downtown West; and
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Manitoba COVID-19 vaccine bulletin – 72
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Eligibility
Eligibility also includes people aged 18 and older who:
are pregnant,
work in any health care setting including outpatient settings, or
work as a front-line police officer or firefighter.
All adults aged 18 and older who live or work in specified jobs in these priority communities are eligible to make an appointment:
Prairie Mountain Health – Brandon East End and Brandon Downtown;
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority – Inkster West, Fort Garry South, Seven Oaks West, Downtown East, Point Douglas South, Inkster East, Point Douglas North and Downtown West; and
Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority – Powerview-Pine Falls.
All adults who live or work (in any role) in the Northern Regional Health Authority, as well as Churchill, are also eligible. A map and other information about community-based eligibility is available at manitoba.ca.
Posted: May 01, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 1
The St. Boniface Hospital emergency room has struggled with nurse vacancy rates since before the pandemic, this week vacancy rates jumped to nearly 30 per cent.(Walther Bernal/CBC)
A former emergency room nurse says chronic staffing shortages at Winnipeg hospitals have created an unsustainable workload for nurses, and caused many to leave the department or leave the profession entirely. Our department is hemorrhaging staff, said Kristin Gebhardt, who until this week worked as a triage nurse at St. Boniface Hospital. It s our senior qualified nurses that we really need that are leaving, which causes huge holes and gaps in our schedules that we are filling.