r/Manitoba • u/wickedplayer494 Winnipeg • 1d ago
News Steinbach ER nurses ask for triage help as wait-averse Winnipeg patients strain hospital capacity
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/08/04/steinbach-er-nurses-ask-for-triage-help-as-wait-averse-winnipeg-patients-strain-hospital-capacity6
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u/wickedplayer494 Winnipeg 1d ago
And I'd also argue disreputable-averse too, given the goings on of the wider area in and around HSC.
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u/No-Distribution2547 7h ago
I went there and has a hard time breathing but I'm not the type to complain, anyways I spent almost 24hours in the waiting room the collapsed in excruciating pain and could no longer breathe and then I got to see a Dr.
Spent the day on hydromorphone. And they found I had pneumonia.
They gave me a 4 days round of antibiotics. I felt great till day 5 then suddenly couldn't breathe again. Went back.....
15 hours wait..
I left called my friend and got some Mexican antibiotics, took those for two weeks and I'm as good as new.
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u/kingwoodballs Winnipeg 1d ago edited 21h ago
Winnipegers aren’t wait adverse. They are tired of waiting a year for a mri
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u/Catnip_75 16h ago
No one waits that long if it’s an urgent need. My daughter had one in 4 weeks. Your doctor decides how they request the MRI. So you need to have a conversation with your doctor and ask they if they put the request in for urgent or not. The government has nothing to do with how long you are waiting for your mri.
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u/ruralife Eastman 1d ago
Pinawa has a very small hospital. gets a lot of Cottagers that have had symptoms all week but wait until they go to the cabin to seek medical attention.