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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is shown at a news conference Tuesday in Ottawa in front of monitors displaying Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam, left, and Procurement Minister Anita Anand, right. Trudeau said his government is considering how best to help Manitoba, which is in the grip of a third coronavirus wave. (Blair Gable/Reuters )
Posted: May 25, 2021 10:08 AM CT | Last Updated: May 25 comments
Four more critically ill COVID-19 patients have been moved to hospitals in Ontario as Manitoba struggles to create room in its strained intensive care units.
The province announced on Tuesday it is slowing down more non-critical surgeries effective immediately to allow the redeployment of nurses and increase its ICU bed capacity by six.
That means Manitoba now has 146 ICU beds, which is more than double the pre-COVID baseline capacity of 72.
The third wave of the pandemic is punishing Manitoba, which has now sent 18 patients to Ontario and is in talks with the governments in Saskatchewan and North Dakota about taking more, said Lanette Siragusa, chief nursing officer for Manitoba Shared Health.
Four more critically ill COVID-19 patients have been moved to hospitals in Ontario as Manitoba struggles to create room in its strained intensive care units.
Some second-dose appointments are being booked in Manitoba on Friday.(Francis Ferland/CBC)
Indigenous Manitobans who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at least 21 days ago or the Moderna vaccine at least 28 days ago can start booking appointments for their second dose starting Monday.
All eligible First Nations, Métis and Inuit people can book starting at 11:45 a.m. Monday. Eligible people are asked to hold off on calling until that time, said Dr. Marcia Anderson, head of Manitoba s First Nations pandemic response team.
First Nations people have made up 40 to 60 per cent of all patients admitted to intensive care units during the second and third waves of the pandemic, Anderson said during an online video conference. First Nations people make up only about 10 per cent of the population of the province.