MAHCP represents 85% of Manitoba’s Allied Health Care professionals. Our membership includes more than 160 professions.
During today's press conference (Nov. 26), we learned that 70% of all COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba have taken place this month of November alone. There have been 185 deaths in November, including 10 announced today. Our sincerest condolences to all...
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383 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths in Manitoba on Thursday | CBC News
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Roughly 70 per cent of Manitoba's total COVID-19 deaths happened this month, the province's chief public health officer said on Thursday as he announced 10 more people had lost their lives to the illn...MAHCP President Bob Moroz was interviewed by CBC Manitoba about the concerns around how the situation at Fairview personal care home is being handled. Here's an excerpt:
A paramedic rapid response team was sent to the home to help out staff last Friday. Bob Moroz, president of the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, said medics were sent into the facility without any planning around their duties.
"Our paramedics want to help," he said. "But they want to make sure it's done safely, both for them and the residents and the other staff."
He said he has heard paramedics are doing tasks such as feeding and toileting residents, on top of assessing them medically.
"They're really just being told to help out however they can, because there's an outbreak and not nearly enough staff to handle it," Moroz said.
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Unions, families raise PPE concerns after COVID-19 outbreak at Brandon care home | CBC News
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Two unions that represent health-care workers at a Brandon, Man., personal care home say their members are not happy with how an outbreak there is being handled — concerns echoed by a family member ...The strain on the Manitoba health system is now keenly being felt as the Grandview Health Centre will temporarily close due to staff being redeployed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic:
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Hospital and emergency services at Grandview Health Centre will be suspended starting at 8 a.m. Thursday, Prairie Mountain Health said in a statement Wednesday.Teleconferencing available for rural Member Advocates
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