The Westman Laboratory in Brandon, Man., will no longer be performing autopsies, with all autopsy services shifting to Winnipeg, the province's health agency says. Shared Health, which oversees autopsy and forensic pathology services in Manitoba, adopted clinical standards earlier this year that require all autopsies to be performed by forensic pathologists. The change was made to ensure a consistent standard of expertise was applied to all cases, a Shared Health spokesperson told CBC News. Before Shared Health made the change, any autopsies deemed complex were already sent to Winnipeg. Since Shared Health instituted the new standards for autopsies, the average wait time has been less than two days, the spokesperson said.

Source: CBC News April 24, 2021 00:00 UTC