Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press local Winnipeg. September 26. 199b editor. Doug Speirs / 697-7230 features editor Buzz Curne a Maii City desk free press a3shortage of nurses forces Hospital Beds to close by Aii Iso ii Bray staff reporter Ash Ortag e of nurses has forced st. Boniface general Hospital to temporarily close Beds this weekend putting additional Strain on an already taxed emergency department officials confirmed yesterday. A they done to have enough staff this weekend to keep them open a Debbie Mintz president of local 5 of the Manitoba nurses Union said yesterday. Mintz said the shortage of w weekend nurses forced the Hospital yesterday to close five Beds on its medical Ward and six observation room Beds. The Beds will remain closed until monday at t he earliest she said. Jan Currie assistant vice president of nursing for the Winnipeg Hospital authority confirmed t he medical Beds had been closed to Deal with t he nursing shortage. She was not Able to confirm the closure of the observation Beds. Mintz said the closure does no to Bode Well for patients needing Mission to the Hospital through the emergency department this weekend. Consequently she said t he nurses Union asked the Winnipeg Hospital aut Hority yesterday to shut Down the emergency department Over the weekend to Deal with the staff shortage. T he request was turned Dow i. Hospital officials yesterday con firmed their emergency rooms had been swamped All week and yesterday w no exception. Kellie 0 a Quot Rourke emergency program director at st., Boniface said there w Ere 14 patients waiting for Beds on stretchers in the Halh Vay yesterday morning the numbers had declined to seven by late yesterday aftem Oon. A a we Are Busy and we have been All summer a a she said a but there have been worse Days than 0 a Rourke however said she had no knowledge of t he nurses Union request to close Down t he emergency depart ment to Cope with the bed closures. Currie said t he bed closures Are t he first at t he Hospital this year. However she said it not catastrophic. A a its five less Beds out of several Hundred. Its not Earth shattering but its not something wed like to see a nevertheless Currie agreed the closures w ill put additional Strain on the system. She said patients May have to go elsewhere or w Ait for a Long time to get medical attention if the emergency Ward Busy this weekend. Mintz said the closure indicative of a More systemic problem with a chronic shortage of nurses in m Manitoba. A a it a been obvious it w Ould come to this Point a she said. A a we be been having a problem in Manitoba for t he past eight Mon the with declining numbers of nurses. The employment to picture Hasni to been promising a she said. Meanwhile them no remains deadlocked in negotiations with t he province Over w Ages and other issues. First cardiac transplant in Manitoba creates a adrenaline Rush at City Hospital hearts beating faster at Hsc recipient surgeons shy away from publicity by John Lyons staff file Porter there san a adrenaline Rush at the health sciences Centre where the first heart transplant in Manitoba w done thursday Hsc spokesman Jim Rodger says. A a it a exciting w Hen you do some thing new and life saving a Rodger said. How Ever those involved in the heart transplant w Ere keeping silent yesterday. Neither the patients family nor any of the Hsc medical team who did t he surgery wanted to be identified or interviewed Rodger said. The 46-year-old female recipient has undergone w hat an increasingly Safe operation. The survival rate in heart transplant cases has grown dramatically since the first one w done 31, years ago in. South Africa. Today 79 per cent of recipients survive More than one year and 65 per cent live More than five years after the operation. One of the most difficult parts of the procedure Rem Ains finding suitable donor hearts. A match of blood and tissue Type must be made for any Organ but the heart and lungs must also be of the same size Manitoba transplant program spokesman Sybil Stokoloff said. A heart can survive for Only four to six hours after it taken from a donor so its important to find a match quickly. When a donor heart becomes available t he first goal to match it to a recipient in the same part of the country Stokoloff said. There no set waiting time for a heart. Less urgent cases can wait months or longer while in a Mergen cies like that of the unidentified Hsc recipient a heart can be found overnight. There no plan to have an ongoing heart transplant Prog ram in Winnipeg Rodger said. A unique set of circumstances led to ,u, transplant he said including the fact the woman was too ill to be flow n to London needed Quick transplant chronology of a transplant a wednesday evening a 46-year-old woman found to be in Irr immediate need of a new heart. She so dose to death that she cannot travel to London ont., for an operation. Her situation so dire that she pronounced a status 4 priority which pushes her to the front of the queue for a compatible heart. A Over the next 12 hours a suitable heart found. A Mied ical team rounded up from Hsc and a surgeon from London prepares to head to Winnipeg. A thursday 11 . Or. Richard Novick touches Down in Winnipeg. Arriving on the Sarnie flight the heart to be a a used in the operation. A thursday afternoon Novick leads a team of at least 10 people., including four Doctore through seven hours of surge by. A yesterday the woman rests in the intensive care unit. Novick who returned Home immediately after the operation performing surgery in London a this weekend the p patient expected to leave intensive care but will remain in Hospital for several weeks. A late october the patient will Likely receive extensive outpatient rare and tests for several months with regular checkups after that. She will take cyclosporine the most common anti rejection drug for the rest of her life. A of workers gird for strike by Glen Macken Zie staff reporter Wayne Glowacki Winnipeg free press three part match needed for heart transplants Stokoloff says. A she would have died if w e had tried a he said. He w Ould not say what the woman was suffering from b it did say her heart trouble was not the result of a n Accident. Heart transplants Are commonly done in eight Canadian cities Stokoloff said. The heart centres Are Halifax Montreal Quebec City Lon Don Ottaw a Toronto dem onto and Vancouver. Most Manitoba go to London health sciences Centre which has performed 42,9 heart transplants since 19 81, spokeswoman Nancy Lawrence said. That a where Winnipeg so Ost fam of u,.s transplant recipient for Mer Blue bombers coach Cal Murphy underwent the operation in july 1992. A ooh wow that a great a Murphy said yesterday from Regina where he a a roughriders assistant when told of the first heart transplant done in Manitoba. Murphy had gone to London after being told he would need a transplant. While waiting for a suitable heart he was forced to undergo emergency bypass surgery. His heart stopped a they did no to even have a heart. They found one by a Miracle a Murphy said adding he was in the operating room for 16 hours Murphy does no to know the donor of his heart. A they done to Tell you All i know it came out of the Toronto area a he said nevertheless he says he writes the donors family twice a year and the in Inion Hospital forwards the letters. Though heart transplants a rent expected to become routine in Winnipeg Hsc does regularly per or a lung and kidney transplants. Last year 27 kidney and seven lung transplants were done at the Hospital Sto Koloff said. The first lung transplant was done Here in 1994. Kidney transplants have been performed in Winnipeg since 1969. Trouble brewing on the labour front at the University of Manitoba. Terry Falconer u of m administrative vice president said the contract with about 380 members of the Canadian Auto workers expires tomorrow and workers could strike Early monday Caw represents mechanical powerhouse janitorial and tradespeople Well food services workers. Cecile Cassista Caw spokeswoman said Many issues remained unresolved yesterday afternoon including unpaid Days off so called Filmon Friday the University desire to Cut overtime plus numerous other claw backs and a proposal that food services workers salaries be Frozen Cassista said a meeting with the membership has been scheduled for tomorrow evening and a strike could Well Start just after Midnight however he also said an agreement could be reached before then in a statement yesterday Christopher Kozier in Hersity of Manitoba students Union president asked both sides to work toward resolving the dispute because of the Impact a strike would have on students. Maintenance and cleaning would be neglected and food service late in the afternoon and evenings already limited to vending machines he said meanwhile the University locked in a bargaining dispute with almost 1,100 professors instructors and Library workers represented by the University of Manitoba pm faculty association whose members went on strike for three weeks in the fall of 1995 p Falconer said management wants to use provincial legislation to get a Man a tory retirement clause into the contract because so Many professors want to work past age 65. a president Jay Goldstein said his Mem Bers strongly oppose mandatory retirement. Goldstein said Ufa has taken a step that May be unique for Canadian faculty unions by offering to loan u of m $ 1, million to help set up an Early retirement incentive plan. Two men Rob grocery store on Mountain two men with rifles robbed a Manitoba Avenue grocery store last night making off with an undisclosed amount of Cash. No one was injured. 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