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“Continued near-record daily case counts are pushing our health-care system into territory we didn’t see during the second wave,” said chief of nursing for Shared Health Lanette Siragusa during Friday’s media conference in Winnipeg. (Winnipeg Free Press/File)
The province added two more intensive care patients to the growing number of Manitobans being transported to Ontario for care on Friday.
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The province added two more intensive care patients to the growing number of Manitobans being transported to Ontario for care on Friday.
Five Manitobans are currently in intensive care units in hospitals in Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
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Lanette Siragusa, chief nursing officer for Shared Health, outlined how COVID-19 is placing increased pressure on the province’s critical care system on Friday during a press briefing. (Winnipeg Free Press/File)
As the third wave of the pandemic rolls through the province, health leaders are reducing elective surgeries in preparation of an increase in demand for critical care units.
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As the third wave of the pandemic rolls through the province, health leaders are reducing elective surgeries in preparation of an increase in demand for critical care units.
On Wednesday, the Brandon Regional Health Centre decreased elective surgery by 50 per cent and increased the number of critical care beds. As well, both Brandon Regional Health Centre and the Grace hospital in Winnipeg will have three full time nurses added to the critical care unit on a 24/7 basis.
As third-wave COVID-19 hospitalizations steadily rise, keeping intensive-care units properly staffed is becoming a major challenge.
As third-wave COVID-19 hospitalizations steadily rise, keeping intensive-care units properly staffed is becoming a major challenge.
As of midnight Tuesday, there were 108 patients in Manitoba ICUs, 47 of them infected with the virus. Most are in their 40s and 50s and from the Winnipeg health region.
Shared Health provided the ICU figures in response to a
Free Press request the same day 16 doctors all of them medical leads in the province released an open letter on Shared Health letterhead, pleading with Manitobans to follow public-health rules for a while longer on behalf of your exhausted health system.
Posted: May 05, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 5
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