Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital will soon be redirecting the sickest patients coming to its emergency room by ambulance to other hospitals for the time being in response to its exceptionally long wait times. The decision comes after hospital staff spoke out about an overflowing ER and dire shortage of capacity at St. Boniface. That means the hospital will still take walk-in patients but won't accept any critical patients arriving by ambulance. She acknowledged hospital staff are doing their best "to provide the care our patients require under what can only be described as very challenging circumstances." Winnipeg acute care hospitals are also currently participating in an initiative to immediate and medium term strategies to ensure ongoing safe patient care, they said.

Source: CBC News August 13, 2021 23:06 UTC