Saskatchewan announced more ICU patients will be transferred to Ontario, several organizations representing health-care workers expressed disapproval in how the surge in hospitalizations is being handled.With six ICU patients already moved to Ontario hospitals, the government of Saskatchewan announced three more transfers Thursday.
One is scheduled for transfer Friday, one Saturday and a third on Sunday.With 76 COVID-19-positive patients in ICUs here in Saskatchewan, in addition to 32 non-COVD-19 patients, several calls arose for more government action to protect the capacity of a health-care system currently housing a total of 136 ICU beds.The province said Wednesday that they’d identified 116 as a threshold number of patients at which.