THUNDER BAY – Shared Health Manitoba confirms it has shipped a pair of COVID-19 positive intensive care unit patients to Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.
According to a release, Manitoba ICUs, between May 13 and May 17, admitted 34 patients with COVID-19.
On Tuesday, faced with a continuation of high admission rates and the fact that no ICU patients were sufficiently recovered for a move to a medicine ward, combined with the need to move other very sick patient to intensive care, the decision was made to send patients into Ontario.
“To ensure our ability to care for Manitobans, the decision was made to transfer two stable, COVID-positive ICU patients to Thunder Bay for ongoing care. These transfers gave us some much needed capacity in the immediate term while planning continues to shore up staffing resources within our ICUs,” reads a release issued by Shared Health Manitoba.
The organization said it continues to monitor the situation and is looking at transferring appropriate patients to personal care homes that have capacity and have begun moving patients from Winnipeg beds to hospitals in other parts of Ontario.
TBNewswatch has reached out to Thunder Bay Regional for comment.
