Winnipeg Free Press By: Carol Sanders | Posted: 7:15 PM CDT Thursday, May. 20, 2021
Last Modified: 7:50 PM CDT Thursday, May. 20, 2021 | Updates Save to Read Later
The Pallister government is being accused of failing to protect Manitobans, as critically ill patients are transferred to Ontario, ICUs overflow, and COVID-19 case counts hit record levels.
The Pallister government is being accused of failing to protect Manitobans, as critically ill patients are transferred to Ontario, ICUs overflow, and COVID-19 case counts hit record levels. I think everybody, to a person, is looking at this and going, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe that they let it get this bad, Dr. Anand Kumar, a medical professor and critical care physician in Winnipeg, said Thursday.
THUNDER BAY - The number of active COVID-19 cases in the Thunder Bay District fell slightly as the number of resolved cases once again is greater than the number of new cases.
On Friday, the Thunder Bay District Health Unit reported one new case of COVID-19. The case is from Thunder Bay and surrounding areas and the exposure is still pending.
With four previous cases now considered resolved, the number of active cases fell from 31 to 28.
There were no new variants of concern detected in the district.
One more person has been admitted to hospital with the virus. According to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, there were nine patients admitted with COVID-19 as of Thursday and four in the intensive care unit. Five individuals from the district are in hospital.
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. (tbnewswatch.com/FILE)
THUNDER BAY – Shared Health Manitoba confirms it has shipped a pair of COVID-19 positive intensive care unit patients to Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.
According to a release, Manitoba ICUs, between May 13 and May 17, admitted 34 patients with COVID-19.
On Tuesday, faced with a continuation of high admission rates and the fact that no ICU patients were sufficiently recovered for a move to a medicine ward, combined with the need to move other very sick patient to intensive care, the decision was made to send patients into Ontario.
“To ensure our ability to care for Manitobans, the decision was made to transfer two stable, COVID-positive ICU patients to Thunder Bay for ongoing care. These transfers gave us some much needed capacity in the immediate term while planning continues to shore up staffing resources within our ICUs,” reads a release issued by Shared Health Manitoba.
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The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has admitted a pair of COVID-19 patients from Manitoba.
Acadia News has confirmed with both local officials and Shared Health Manitoba that the patients, who are both in stable condition, were transferred to the hospital on Tuesday.
“TBRHSC has received a total of two patient transfers from Manitoba to assist them with their capacity issues,” stated Marcello Bernardo, Acting Manager of
Communications & Engagement. “These transfers have had no impact on the service provided to regional patients. Given that our COVID+ numbers have reduced substantially, we cannot provide any further detail without breaching protected health information.”