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As Manitobans prepare to pause and celebrate the holidays alone, health professionals continue to feel the pressure.
Case numbers may be stable but hospitals and care homes continue to be a busy place. In some places, such as at Seven Oaks Hospital, the staff have been too busy for Christmas decorations. Busy days and concerns over COVID are causing stress among the staff. There is a bit of anxiety about what still is to come and how bad could it be. So we are really hoping that everyone stays vigilant, Chief Nursing Officer Lanette Siragusa says.
Winnipeg hospital workers spreading holiday joy through stairwell singing Written by Libby Giesbrecht Sunday, Dec 20 2020, 12:58 PM Allen Fehr (left) plays piano while Shirley Platon (right) sings Christmas carols in the stairwell at Seven Oaks Hospital. (Screenshot: Allen Fehr/Youtube)
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Shirley Platon and Allen Fehr had never met when Fehr first heard Platon singing through the walls of an elevator at Seven Oaks Hospital. I was singing through the stairwell and then Allen heard it through the elevator, Platon explains, Then, when we got off on the same floor, he asked if it was me that was coming out of the stairwell.
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Shirley Platon recorded her part of the duet in the Seven Oaks Hospital stairwell where Allen Fehr heard her
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