Visits to Winnipeg Children’s Hospital have reached unprecedented levels due to a significant number of respiratory virus cases earlier in the season, a spokesman for Shared Health Manitoba said in a statement Monday.
On Sunday, 201 visits were registered at the pediatric wing of the Winnipeg Health Sciences Center. According to the statement, this is the highest number of day visits in several years.
Two weeks into November, Winnipeg Children’s Hospital was seeing an average of 174.5 visits per day, beating the record high of 170.3 visits per day in December 2019, the spokesman said.
The daily average at Children’s Hospital has risen about 20% since October, when the ward saw an average of 145.8 visitors per day, the spokesman writes. Last year, in November 2021, the children’s hospital treated an average of 124 patients per day.
last tuesday, 178 children were presented to the hospital emergency department due to a spike in cases of respiratory virus in Manitoba.
To accommodate this flow of young patients, some staff working in other areas of the Center for Health Sciences have been temporarily assigned to the pediatric intensive care unit to provide additional care in that department, the notice said.
Rooms have also been opened to accommodate additional patients.
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