Military set to assist in Manitoba’s COVID-19 patient airlifts
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OTTAWA — The military has touched down in Winnipeg, and is ready to start helping transfer COVID-19 patients out of the province.
“It will be a gradual rollout, as further support details are determined,” Canadian Armed Forces spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande wrote Friday.
A large military plane arrived Thursday at CFB Winnipeg in the city’s west end. The grey CC-130H Hercules is outfitted with a special isolation unit, which is a sealed room with two beds and seats for six medical specialists, as well as four aircrew.
Formally called an aeromedical bio-containment evacuation system, the unit is ready to transport ICU patients as early as Friday.
Critical care nurses will be sent to two alternative isolation accommodation sites in Winnipeg chosen by Shared Health, which is withholding the locations, citing patient confidentiality.
Three medical laboratory technologists will help with COVID-19 testing at Health Sciences Centre, Grace Hospital and St. Boniface Hospital.
Military officials were still doing reconnaissance Friday, but said they have can assign troops as needed, based on instructions from the province, Public Safety Canada or the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Meanwhile, six Red Cross nurses have begun their orientation at HSC, to work in the emergency department and surgery units. More nurses should arrive next week, Shared Health said.
As of Thursday morning, 28 ICU patients had already been transported to Ontario and Saskatchewan hospitals; of which, one had returned to Manitoba after improved health.
dylan.robertson@freepress.mb.ca