Despite the fact he didn’t have COVID-19, and his repeated requests to stay in the Health Sciences Centre emergency department, Vince Mancini was sent to a COVID outbreak ward when he was hospitalized in May 2022. (Ian Froese/CBC)A Winnipeg hospital overwhelmed with more patients than it had capacity for sent a man who didn’t have COVID-19, but lives with multiple sclerosis, into an outbreak ward where he says he shouldn’t have been. Mancini doesn’t know why his pleas were dismissed, but he suspects the hospital had no other beds. To read more of this story first reported by CBC News, click here. Questions about CBC content can be directed to talkback@cbc.ca.

Source: CBC News August 03, 2022 16:37 UTC