Manitoba hospitals low on essentials for feeding babies, reading heart rates due to supply chain issues
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This article was published 17/02/2022 (1349 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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.
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