ICYMI: 'Without precedent': Sask. hospitals still in 'marathon' as COVID-19 measures end
In hospitals, the ‘marathon’ fight against the virus rages on, as acute care units tackle some of the highest caseloads they’ve seen in the last two years.
Saskatchewan was the first province in Canada to drop its masking mandate and is the only jurisdiction that doesn’t require people with COVID-19 to self-isolate. The province took that step while COVID-19 hospitalizations were near a record peak, and after one of the deadliest month’s in the last two years.
“Some are at the highest level of capacity they have seen throughout this pandemic,” medical health officer Dr. Johnmark Opondo told doctors in a March 3 briefing.Article content The high pressure on acute care reverberates throughout the system. In Saskatoon emergency rooms, large numbers of patients are listed as ANB — admit no beds — meaning they are in a holding pattern, waiting for care that isn’t available. About 33 patients were listed as ANB on an automated dashboard as of Wednesday around 12:30 p.m.
“The difference is that we’ve consistently been at the highest end of what we can support for weeks,” Katulka said, adding that if not for COVID “we’d be back to normal ICU levels.”
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