Posted: May 19, 2021 1:56 PM CT | Last Updated: May 19
Manitoba s ICU capacity has been stretched in recent weeks, as the province has seen a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases during its third wave.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Three Manitoba patients with COVID-19 have been transferred to a Thunder Bay, Ont., hospital, as a spike in admissions has placed the province s intensive care capacity at significant risk, a spokesperson said.
The first two patients were transferred to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in northwestern Ontario Tuesday because of a combination of continued high admissions, no ICU patients that were sufficiently recovered for a move to a medicine ward, and an increase in the number of very sick patients in our medical wards at risk of needing to be transferred into ICU, a Manitoba Shared Health spokesperson wrote in an email Wednesday.
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