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Decision to expand criteria aggravates shortage By: Kevin Rollason | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2021
Last Modified: 11:08 PM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2021 | Updates
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They join the long list of Manitobans who have questioned the vaccine rollout. It is so frustrating to us, said one doctor, who asked that her name not be published because she worries the province might cut off her clinic from getting more vaccine. Two weeks ago, we were given 50 doses, so each doctor at this clinic picked 12 to 14 high-priority patients. That s not many because we see 7,500 patients.
Clinics and pharmacies received a new shipment of 54,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which will be administered to people 55 to 64 with serious health conditions, and anyone over the age of 64. (Matthias Schrader / The Associated Press files)
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Waste? So far not, but plenty of want
As vaccine rollout ramps up, end-of-day surplus will become more of an issue for clinic and pharmacy staff; province hasn t issued formal guidelines By: Katie May | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Apr. 5, 2021
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Four months in to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, a lack of supply is still Manitoba s main concern, but the province has yet to announce a plan to prevent unnecessary waste.
Mass-immunization clinics don t use standby lists, which have been adopted in some other provinces to administer leftover vaccines at the last minute, and doctors offices and pharmacies developed their own protocols to dole out all of their vaccines before they expired. Wastage wasn t a concern, representatives for physicians and pharmacists said, because of the limited number of doses clinics and pharmacies initially received last month.
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Procedures to relieve painful suffering slow to resume at Women s Hospital Save to Read Later
Sara Corrigan, above with her 10-year-old daughter Aubrey, has had a major surgery cancelled twice over the past six months owing to staffing shortages related to the COVID-19 response. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
A slow resumption of non-emergency surgeries at the Women’s Hospital has left among the hundreds of patients in pain one woman making monthly trips to the emergency room because of labour-like agony when she menstruates.
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A slow resumption of non-emergency surgeries at the Women’s Hospital has left among the hundreds of patients in pain one woman making monthly trips to the emergency room because of labour-like agony when she menstruates.