Saskatchewan looking at sending some COVID-19 ICU patients to Manitoba – Winnipeg
Saskatchewan is exploring the potential for sending a few of its intensive care sufferers to Manitoba.
Minister of Well being Paul Merriman says Saskatchewan is reaching out to its japanese neighbour to ask for assist.
He says he may even contact his counterpart in Manitoba to debate whether or not the province may take some COVID-19 ICU sufferers.
Hospitals in Saskatchewan are overwhelmed with COVID-19 sufferers, most of whom are unvaccinated.
There are 335 COVID-19 sufferers in hospital, with 75 of them within the ICU.
Saskatchewan says sending sufferers out of province is a final resort, and nobody has needed to be transferred but.
However well being officers say it may occur within the coming weeks if the variety of folks in hospital doesn’t go down.
The province additionally has plans in place to ship ICU sufferers to Ontario if wanted.
Saskatchewan took in a number of of Manitoba’s ICU sufferers earlier this 12 months when that province was coping with its third wave.
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