Saskatchewan looking to send COVID-19 patients to Manitoba as ICUs overwhelmed
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REGINA — Saskatchewan is exploring the possibility of sending COVID-19 patients to Manitoba, a day after it announced plans to send those sick with the virus to Ontario.
Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman said Thursday that officials in that province have reached out to its neighbouring province to start a discussion.
The province has been running out of intensive care unit space and staff as mostly unvaccinated COVID-19 patients overwhelm the health-care system. Saskatchewan has had the highest daily rate of COVID-19 infections of any province for several weeks.
On Wednesday, Saskatchewan said it was preparing air ambulance flights to Ontario and that they could happen this week.
The head of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Scott Livingstone, said it is easier to send patients out of province than to bring in staff from the military, Canadian Red Cross or other provinces.
"From a true overall critical care capacity, the number of staff that's required to staff a bed — it doesn't make sense to bring in those teams to the province. It makes a lot more sense to send (patients) out as a very last resort," Livingstone said.
However, the health authority's executive director, John Ash, told a town-hall meeting of physicians last week that sending COVID-19 patients out of province could result in deaths. The comment was repeated Thursday by Dr. Hassan Masri, a Saskatoon-based intensive care physician.
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