WINNIPEG -- A review of Manitoba’s largest and deadliest long-term care home outbreak has found more could’ve been done to prepare and respond to COVID-19.External reviewer Lynn Stevenson’s 74-page report found the care at Maples to be more than reasonable prior to the pandemic.“It is a little bit like a bush fire,” said Stevenson. “Once it starts going, it really grabs hold.”
The provincially commissioned review was prompted by a paramedic’s anonymous Reddit post, flagging what they described as nightmare conditions. The report makes 17 recommendations ranging from revised pandemic planning to more funding for long-term care.For Larry Baillie, the external report into the outbreak at Maples care home falls short.“Why did this facility have 56 deaths?” Baillie said. “This didn’t answer it.”
Liberal leader Dougald Lamont said: “This report ignores all the ways this government failed to get ready, failed to put money in.”
CTVNews JillMacyshonCTV And that’s the hard part: trusting these people. Care before the pandemic was already questionable but now it’s downright inhumane. The worst part is these people are being separated from their families for the greater good yet still contracted covid regardless.
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