SASKATOON NICU NEARLY FULL AFTER MINISTER CLAIMS THERE IS NO NICU CRISIS IN SASKATCHEWAN

SASKATOON- New data shows that the Saskatoon NICU is nearly full, with 3 units at the James Patterson Children’s Hospital currently reporting they are overcapacity. This comes on the heels of NICU nurses in Regina sounding the alarm that they used their last ventilator on April 10th.

The Saskatchewan NDP is demanding the Premier and Health Minister come clean on a crisis impacting the care of critically sick newborns at the Regina General Hospital. The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses published an anonymous email late Friday afternoon that appears to be from a frontline healthcare worker in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Regina General Hospital.

“Yesterday during Question Period, the Minister of Health told woman of Saskatchewan that they didn’t need to worry. The data says exactly the opposite. Data does not lie,” Said Meara Conway, Saskatchewan NDP Shadow Minister for Rural & Remote Health, “He told us that the issue was due to a surge in babies being born just in Regina, but we are seeing Saskatoon experiencing the same issues. This is not a coincidence. It is Sask. Party mismanagement.”

Yesterday, Conway demanded immediate public disclosure of the situation at the RGH NICU and a full public reporting of what emergency measures are being taken to add staff to the unit and bring on more ventilators, as well as daily updates until the situation is addressed. The Sask. Party denied her requests.

“Some of these babies are fighting to live and everything possible should be done to provide the lifesaving care they need.”

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