Dauphin hospital services continue to be restored
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Premier Wab Kinew and Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara touted ongoing restoration work at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre on Tuesday during a tour of the facility that was forced to close on July 1 after extreme flood damage.
The most recent service restored in Dauphin is a renal dialysis unit that is temporarily operating out of the Dauphin Community Health Services building.
Renovations at the Grandview Health Centre were recently completed as well, adding a temporary chemotherapy treatment area closer to Dauphin, with “patients beginning treatment this fall,” the province said in a news release on Tuesday.
Agriculture Minister and Dauphin MLA Ron Kostyshyn, Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara and Premier Wab Kinew are framed by a CT machine at Dauphin Regional Health Centre while getting a tour of the progress in restoring services to the hospital on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
In the next few weeks at the Dauphin hospital, “accessible washrooms serving the emergency department are expected to open,” the release said.
Since Labour Day — when the emergency department reopened — several diagnostic services have been restored, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), ultrasounds and cardiac stress testing.
Kinew and Asagwara also visited the site of the temporary trailer-based mobile CT scanner, which began accepting patients in mid-September.
Kinew said the government fired the professionals who said it couldn’t be reopened by his deadline and that he’s proud of everyone who helped make it happen.
He didn’t provide a timeline on when the government expects the restoration to be done.
Removal of debris and silt from the hospital crawlspace is “approximately 85 per cent complete,” and temporary heating is currently being installed throughout the building, Prairie Mountain Health says on its website.
Westman residents can check PMH’s website for up-to-date information and updates as restoration work continues in Dauphin.
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