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Pregnant women from northern Manitoba are increasingly transferred to southern hospitals to give birth because of nursing shortages.
Pregnant women from northern Manitoba are increasingly transferred to southern hospitals to give birth because of nursing shortages.
St. Anthony s General Hospital in The Pas was one of two northern hospitals, along with Thompson, where women with high-risk pregnancies could give birth, but recently high-risk deliveries in The Pas were halted because of a lack of staff in the obstetrics unit, Manitoba Nurses Union president Darlene Jackson said.
Jackson estimated the unit has a 50 per cent vacancy rate. As a result, she said women are transferred to Winnipeg, Brandon, or Thompson to give birth. The union was alerted to the issue last fall, but since December, the obstetrics unit has lost four nurses and no new nurses have been recruited.
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NDP MLA Amanda Lathlin (The Pas-Kameesak)
In March, New Zealand joined a small handful of other countries, including India and the Philippines, in legislating paid bereavement leave in the event of miscarriage.
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In March, New Zealand joined a small handful of other countries, including India and the Philippines, in legislating paid bereavement leave in the event of miscarriage.
Under the bill, which was unanimously passed in New Zealand’s Parliament, mothers and their partners or spouses would be entitled to three days’ bereavement following the unplanned end of a pregnancy by miscarriage or still-birth at any point in the pregnancy.
Child sex-assault victim support bill nears royal assent Posted: Save to Read Later
Manitoba MLAs from all parties in the house voted in favour Thursday of an NDP bill that aims to help youth in northern and isolated communities who ve been sexually assaulted.
Manitoba MLAs from all parties in the house voted in favour Thursday of an NDP bill that aims to help youth in northern and isolated communities who ve been sexually assaulted.
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It was introduced by The Pas-Kameesak MLA Amanda Lathlin in November.
The bill would require the province to report annually on the number of health professionals trained and approved to examine child victims of sexual assault. It would also require the province to publicly report on the number of evidence kits available in all health regions.
Untested Evidence : Sexual assault survivors struggle to access rape kits in Canada Maya Hamovitch W5 ; htmlCode +=
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TORONTO In the early 1970s, Martha “Marty” Goddard was living in Chicago and volunteering at a crisis hotline where she offered support to teenage girls who had been raped. She was determined to find a way to hold sexual predators accountable for their crimes. Goddard set out to transform forensics and envisioned the first standardized sexual assault kit - also known as the rape kit - to be used by health-care workers to preserve the evidence from a sexual assault.