24/7 mobile paramedic team created to address drug crisis in downtown Winnipeg (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/mobile-paramedic-team-winnipeg-downtown-9.7221569)
QuoteParamedic teams will soon be available around the clock to respond to overdose calls in Winnipeg's downtown area as a pilot project to address the ongoing toxic drug crisis, the Manitoba government says.
But Winnipeg's mayor wonders where those paramedics will come from when the city is already in short supply.
"In the past week alone, several ambulances were out of service on multiple days because we lacked the staff to operate them," Mayor Scott Gillingham said in a statement following the province's announcement on Tuesday.
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Headed to the ER? Here's why you could now wait more than 48 hours to be admitted (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hospital-patients-waiting-48-hours-for-admission-9.7248089)
QuoteOn Monday morning, Maureen Armstrong's elderly mother suffered a fall and was taken by ambulance to a Windsor, Ont., emergency room. There, she waited more than 48 hours to be admitted.
By the time Armstrong spoke with CBC News on Wednesday afternoon, her 81-year-old mother was still waiting in the hallway for a hospital bed.
"It's very noisy and volatile and there's a lot of patients that might be unruly and things that security guards are taking care of," Armstrong said. "It's not really a healthy environment to be in long term."
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Top physicians warned Winnipeg hospitals nearing 'disintegration' in March letter (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-hospitals-urgent-care-doctors-9.7248948)
QuoteTop Winnipeg doctors warned in a confidential letter in March that urgent care centres might have to close and another patient death was inevitable unless immediate changes were made.
They say physicians are "repeatedly forced to choose" who gets care first, knowing the condition of other patients might decline while they wait.
"We do not want to stand at the bedside of another person who deteriorated due to preventable delays and gaps in care — knowing their outcome would have been different," the letter, which was addressed to health-care leadership, said.
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Manitoba nurse admits to working ICU shift without proper training, certification (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/eleonor-mascardo-nurse-discipline-9.7262756)
QuoteA Manitoba nurse has admitted to taking a shift at an intensive care unit in Brandon that she was unfit to do, and for misrepresenting her nursing experience in advertisements for her skin care business, a disciplinary panel says.
Eleonor Mascardo, who first became a registered nurse in Manitoba in 2022, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct to a College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba disciplinary panel earlier this year, a written decision dated June 24 says.
Mascardo admitted to accepting a shift at an intensive care unit at the Brandon Regional Health Centre in January 2024 through a nursing agency, despite not having the required training or skills, the decision says.
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1 in 10 emergency physicians leaving Canadian ERs, national survey suggests (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ed-physician-survey-9.7279736)
QuoteDr. Kaitlin Stockton has watched far too many patients suffer in overflowing emergency departments.
The Vancouver-based physician has given patients she just met a cancer diagnosis, with little privacy in the middle of a noisy room. She's cared for a man with an intracranial brain bleed on an ambulance stretcher in a hallway. And she can't shake the memory of one patient who had septic shock after spending eight hours in a waiting room, dangerously close to death.
Those kinds of harrowing experiences take a toll on emergency physicians, Stockton said, and there have been too many to count. At least five of her colleagues have left in the last few years.
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If memory serves, not that many years ago there was a contingent here in the U.S. that touted Canada's medical system as vastly superior to ours.
Haven't heard much from them lately.
Quote from: Phoenix on Jul 27, 2026, 04:35 AMIf memory serves, not that many years ago there was a contingent here in the U.S. that touted Canada's medical system as vastly superior to ours.
Haven't heard much from them lately.
Canada still has lower-priced prescription drugs, and many people in the United States living near the border cross into Canada to buy them there. Also, unlike in the United States, people in Canada rarely declare bankruptcy over medical debts.
QuoteThe Vancouver-based physician has given patients she just met a cancer diagnosis, with little privacy in the middle of a noisy room.
Decades ago, while waiting in a doctor's office in New York, I watched an Indian doctor say to a woman in a loud voice that anyone in the room could hear, "Mrs. Jones, you have breast cancer!" She just stood there looking stunned. He didn't provide her with any privacy when telling her that.
Quote from: fluxmaster on Jul 27, 2026, 05:33 AMAlso, unlike in the United States, people in Canada rarely declare bankruptcy over medical debts.
I suppose that's some small consolation while one is dying in the ER, waiting to see someone. At least the estate will go intact to the heirs. ::)
Quote from: Phoenix on Jul 27, 2026, 06:35 AMQuote from: fluxmaster on Jul 27, 2026, 05:33 AMAlso, unlike in the United States, people in Canada rarely declare bankruptcy over medical debts.
I suppose that's some small consolation while one is dying in the ER, waiting to see someone. At least the estate will go intact to the heirs. ::)
Bankruptcy is not the worst thing in the world. My point was that a "capitalist" health care system is not the ideal. A "socialist" system, such as Canada's, can work just fine if done properly, and if you have a homogenous population that doesn't abuse the system. Many Americans who come to Europe comment on how much better their health care system is than ours.
Quote from: fluxmaster on Jul 27, 2026, 06:56 AMA "socialist" system, such as Canada's, can work just fine if done properly, and if you have a homogenous population that doesn't abuse the system.
The "system" is the problem, but too complex a topic to get into here. It begins with people who don't take of themselves and ends with others profiting from those personal failings. Yes, there is a better way, and the only nation which was trending in the right direction was destroyed 81 years ago.
QuoteMany Americans who come to Europe comment on how much better their health care system is than ours.
For now, perhaps, but Europe's demographics are changing. It also hasn't hurt that they haven't had to pay for their own defense for over three-quarters of a century. That leaves plenty of money for social spending.
Btw, I assume you are excluding Britain's NHS which is now every bit the nightmare Canada's is.
Winnipeg health authority asks long-term care facilities to make space for hospital patients (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-regional-health-authority-long-term-care-9.7307732)
QuoteWinnipeg's health authority has asked a trio of long-term care facilities to make spaces available for some hospital patients as the local health-care system grapples with a surge in demand.
Riverview Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre and Misericordia Health Centre have all been told to find temporary capacity to take on patients, a Winnipeg Regional Health Authority spokesperson said in an emailed statement to CBC News. The patients are those who no longer need acute care but still require some level of care before they transition to other settings, the spokesperson said.
The WRHA "continues to experience exceptionally high demand for care across the health-care system," they said, and facilities across the region "have a shared responsibility to identify and use available capacity to help respond to periods of increased pressure."
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Recovery work continues after ransomware attack at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-hsc-ransomware-cyberattack-9.7310005)
QuoteManitoba's largest hospital is still working to recover from a cyberattack a week after first discovering it.
Shared Health says in an update that the ransomware has hit maintenance systems at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre and CancerCare Manitoba but that patient care is not affected.
The health authority says its investigation has found the attack has affected central monitoring of its heating, ventilation and cooling systems but that they are still operating and being monitored locally.
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Winnipeg nurse punished for 2025 error 'no registered nurse should have made' (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/kamaljeet-dherdi-nurse-holy-family-9.7324445)
QuoteA former Winnipeg nurse who admitted to packing a patient's anus with about 10 centimetres of gauze when they were supposed to dress a nearby wound has been disciplined by the provincial regulator.
Kamaljeet Kaur Dherdi pleaded guilty to professional misconduct earlier this year after the March 2025 incident at Holy Family Home, a personal care home on Aberdeen Avenue, the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba's disciplinary panel said in a written decision dated Aug. 19.
Dherdi must pay the college $8,000 in investigative costs and will face heavy restrictions on their nursing licence if they seek reinstatement, the panel said.
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QuoteDherdi must pay the college $8,000 in investigative costs and will face heavy restrictions on their nursing licence if they seek reinstatement, the panel said.
Does Dherdi self-identify as plural? ???
Quote from: fluxmaster on Aug 29, 2026, 05:58 AMQuoteDherdi must pay the college $8,000 in investigative costs and will face heavy restrictions on their nursing licence if they seek reinstatement, the panel said.
Does Dherdi self-identify as plural? ???
Might just be a case of the CBC reporter not wanting to assume "their" gender... I notice this is one of the articles where the reporter isn't named. I was checking to see whether it was an obvious fruitcake.
Manitoba hospitals don't have capacity to do their own testing, Dynacare official says (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/dynacare-labour-board-hearing-essential-workers-9.7339683)
QuoteDynacare's chief medical officer says Manitoba hospitals don't even have the capacity to deal with their own testing, after being asked whether the province's public health system could handle the lab company's work.
Dr. Jenisa Naidoo said Thursday some of the lab work that's supposed to be done in provincial health-care facilities is being sent to the private company.
Her statement is "not based on [Shared Health's] information. It's based on the fact that we get the work," Naidoo said during a Manitoba Labour Board hearing that will determine whether Dynacare workers provide an essential service.
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Dementia patient found face down in puddle in another neighbourhood after leaving Winnipeg home, lawsuit says (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lawsuit-man-dementia-cambridge-health-9.7337877)
QuoteA company that provides residential care to people with complex behavioural health issues is being sued after a man with a mental disability was allegedly left unsupervised and walked away from the home unaccompanied.
The man, now 38, was diagnosed with dementia and was living at a residential apartment complex in Winnipeg, operated by Cambridge Health Inc., with 24-hour behavioural care services and supervision.
He was not to leave the home unless accompanied by a staff member or a designated family member. The man was in a common area at about 4:30 p.m. on April 3, 2025, when "he was left unsupervised and walked out of the Cambridge home," the lawsuit says.
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Ste. Rose du Lac doctor sounds alarm over staffing shortages (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ste-rose-doctors-emergency-department-9.7345188)
QuoteAn "exhausted" Manitoba doctor is sounding the alarm over staffing shortages that might result in more emergency room closures in Ste. Rose du Lac.
Dr. Ashley Blais, a physician at the community's hospital, says it has recently had to close the emergency department for several days due to the "downstream consequences of flooding and prolonged disruption at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre."
"We opened our doors, and our physicians or nurses and staff absorbed increased patient volumes, additional in-patient pressures, because our neighbours needed us. And that's what we do — that's what rural health-care providers do in a crisis," she said in an interview with CBC News.
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Donor who reported sexual contact with HIV-positive person allowed to give plasma in Regina: documents (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/grifols-regina-hiv-plasma-9.7343597)
QuoteHealth Canada inspection documents reveal a person who said they'd had sexual contact with someone who tested positive for HIV was allowed to give plasma twice at a for-profit donation centre in Regina.
An inspection exit report obtained by CBC details multiple deficiencies that led federal regulators to find the Grifols paid plasma centre in Regina non-compliant following an inspection that began Jan. 13 of this year.
That includes documenting "multiple times" when people who had punctures and bruising on their veins were allowed to give plasma, without any documented additional assessment of the donor's suitability.
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Doctors say B.C. Supreme Court ruling on foreign-trained doctors a 'blow' for rural health care (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/doctors-supreme-court-ruling-9.7349533)
QuoteDoctors are speaking out after the B.C. Supreme Court ruled the province can't force foreign-trained doctors to work in "underserviced" areas
"It's another nail in the coffin of rural health care," said Charles Helm, a semi-retired physician who has worked in Tumbler Ridge — a small community in B.C.'s Peace Region — for more than 30 years.
Currently, doctors trained in non-Canadian schools are required to live and practise in rural or remote locations in the province for two or three years.
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Figures that there's those who think multicultural immigration is key to improving our faltering health care system.
Interesting little data point:
REVEALED: More Canadians die from MAID each year than Americans do from gun homicidesQuoteCanada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) program accounted for more deaths than gun homicides in the United States in 2024. This is despite the US having roughly eight times the population as Canada.
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-more-canadians-die-from-maid-each-year-than-americans-do-from-gun-homicides (https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-more-canadians-die-from-maid-each-year-than-americans-do-from-gun-homicides)
QuoteREVEALED: More Canadians die from MAID each year than Americans do from gun homicides
Wonder what proportion of those suicides are White?
Google AI's response:
According to the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, the vast majority of recipients who answered the voluntary demographic questions identified as Caucasian.
Racial and Ethnic Breakdown
Caucasian (White): 95.6% of respondentsEast Asian: 1.6% of respondents. Other racial, ethnic, or cultural identities made up the remaining small fraction of respondents.
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QuoteAn 83-year-old grandmother in Ontario died thanks to Medical Assistance in Dying, better known as MAiD. But her family says she changed her mind, cried, prayed, and begged not to get the injection.
Her granddaughter says Brigitte Stegemann was very confused that morning, had failed a cognitive assessment, and never clearly consented to what was about to happen.
The medical professionals apparently saw it differently... and now police are investigating.
https://revolver.news/2026/09/report-canadian-grandmother-euthanized-while-carrying-and-begging-for-her-life/