COVID-19 pandemic, is going beyond health-care facilities and is affecting home care as well.This April, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) cancelled nearly 27,000 appointments.
That’s 166 per cent more than over the same month in 2021.That same month, recorded home-care cancellations by the WRHA were more than 10,000 higher than the numbers from April of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic.The WRHA says its home-care program continues to experience staffing shortages, but cancellations related to heavy winter storms across the province also contributed to those numbers.
Surgical, diagnostic backlog continues to grow, Doctors Manitoba says “We have had increased cancelations for a variety of reasons and factors,” WRHA community health services director Pat Younger told Global News.“We’ve had a significant number of storms in the month of April.