Winnipeg ER doctors want immediate changes to protect patient care after weekend crisis

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Health Minister Audrey Gordon said she will meet with hospital leaders, nurses at Health Sciences Centre

Two Winnipeg emergency doctors are calling for immediate changes after the province's largest emergency ward ran out of room over the weekend.

On Tuesday, CBC reported that a dozen severely ill patients were lined up on stretchers in an entrance hallway at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre Sunday night because of a lack of space inside.

HSC emergency department physician Dr. Merril Pauls says ERs in the province need to be scaled up, as intensive care beds were during previous waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"That's a model we've used within the last couple of years that really shows that we can do something different right now," he said in a Wednesday interview with CBC Manitoba's Information Radio.

"We don't have to wait years from now. We don't have to wait till a new crop of people are trained up."

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