Spiritual care practitioners providing critical support for health-care workers
WHO helps heal the healers during the pandemic?
For a growing number of health-care workers in Winnipeg hospitals, the answer is spiritual care practitioners. There’s been a major shift in the amount of time we spend with staff, said Kathleen Rempel Boschman, professional lead for spiritual care services for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and manager of spiritual care at Concordia Hospital. Health-care staff are struggling. They need a listening ear, a chance to debrief, she said, adding staff in intensive care units are feeling the greatest amount of stress.
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The medical lead of Manitoba’s vaccine rollout, Dr. Joss Reimer, took questions and addressed concerns from newcomers to the province Thursday afternoon.
The lead of Manitoba’s vaccine rollout took questions and addressed concerns from newcomers to the province Thursday afternoon.
The lead of Manitoba’s vaccine rollout took questions and addressed concerns from newcomers to the province Thursday afternoon. We have seen some patterns emerging where, both in Winnipeg and southern Manitoba, there are some areas that have lower uptake, Dr. Joss Reimer said. And this is a blend of things. We think in southern Manitoba, a lot of it has to do with vaccine hesitancy, beliefs and community views on vaccines, but in Winnipeg, we think it has a lot more to do with barriers to seeking care.
The NHR now has 190 active cases of COVID-19, by far the lowest of any of Manitoba s five health regions - the second-lowest health region, the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, now has 265 active cases as of May 14. The NHR s 190 active cases is the lowest number of active cases seen in northern Manitoba since November 2020, when the NHR cleared 200 active cases in the midst of the second wave of COVID-19. Out of those northern cases, only four districts within the NHR have double-digit numbers of COVID-19 cases. One of those is the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district, which has 10 active COVID-19 cases, including two new cases reported Friday. The other districts that have reported high numbers of active COVID-19 cases include the Island Lake district (88 cases active), the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/Gods River/Gods Lake district (27 cases active) and the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak district (25 active cases). Combined, these four districts
Two new cases were reported in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district, which now sits at nine active cases. Since the pandemic began, 165 people in the Flin Flon district have tested positive for COVID-19. No new outbreaks or possible public exposures have been announced by provincial public health authorities in the NHR. There are, according to public health officials, 282 active cases of COVID-19 in northern Manitoba. While the picture is bright in the north, things are worsening in the south. Three more deaths from COVID-19 were announced by the province, each of which were tied to COVID-19 variants of concern. The three deaths push Manitoba to a total of 1,000 deaths due to COVID-19 during the pandemic.