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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.
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After months of working flat out to care for patients during the pandemic, and sometimes slogging through double shifts, health-care workers were asked to sacrifice yet again by scrapping their days off during the holidays.
After months of working flat out to care for patients during the pandemic, and sometimes slogging through double shifts, health-care workers were asked to sacrifice yet again by scrapping their days off during the holidays.
Thousands of health-care workers employed by Shared Health and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority were asked to voluntarily give up their booked time off in late December and January in exchange for vacation pay, according to memos dated Dec. 17. The vacation payout offer is a one-time deal to meet staffing demands during the COVID-19 pandemic, a spokesperson for Shared Health confirmed. It s expected to run until the end of January and doesn t apply to doctors.
WINNIPEG A trio of personal care homes in Manitoba are getting an added layer of protection in the fight against COVID-19. Three sites, including Winnipeg’s Deer Lodge Centre, are being sent Abbott Panbio COVID-19 antigen tests. “It’s a rapid test that we get the results back in 20 minutes,” said Kevin Scott, chief operating officer at Deer Lodge Centre. “It’s really that extra measure for us to be able to keep our patients and residents safe.” The goal is to stop COVID from unknowingly infiltrating these highly vulnerable places and infecting the people who call them home.