Amid a crush of COVID-19 patients, staffing shortages and strained resources, what should happen if Manitoba hospital staff are forced to choose which patient receives life-saving care and which doesn’t?
It’s a question doctors and advocates for people with disabilities have been asking for months.
They say the need for a formal framework guiding those impossible decisions is even more pressing now, amid the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, which has put a record number of Manitobans in hospital and staff in isolation.
“It’s something that administrators are not really keen to look at,” said one doctor, who works in the Southern Health
