Manitoba hospitals low on essentials for feeding babies, reading heart rates due to supply chain issues – CBC

Letter to hospital staff says border closures among several issues impacting supply

Feb 17, 2022

Nurses say Manitoba’s hospitals are low on critical supplies they use to feed premature babies, deliver intravenous nutrition to sick children and adults, and monitor patients’ vital signs.

Hospitals have been short on some supplies for the past several weeks, a spokesperson for Shared Health has confirmed.

There have been supply chain issues at different points in the pandemic, driven by a number of factors like shortages of raw materials and transportation issues, they wrote.

“Issues with some supplies have been ongoing for the past several weeks and predate the protests at the border,” a spokesperson wrote in an email to CBC News.

But an email to staff at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre sent Monday says the border closures are at least in part to blame.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/supply-chain-hospitals-1.6354562