Wrong address sent to health-care workers
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This article was published 18/01/2021 (2069 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Approximately 558 health-care workers with vaccine appointments at the Keystone Centre were given the wrong address for today’s appointments.
Candid internal emails between senior government leaders about the mistake were also sent to the Manitoba NDP, who issued a press release about the incident on Sunday.
Included in the correspondence is a response by communications director Blake Robert, who asked:
“What, if any, are the consequences for this repeat error? Some kind of contractual penalty? Credit applied to whatever government is paying for the service? Reassignment of the person responsible for the error?
“Or, are we just shrugging our shoulders and using the Britney Spears response of ‘Oops! I did it again.’”
The private company responsible, PetalMD, is going to be put on “training wheels,” treasury board head Paul Beauregard wrote, noting that this is the second time they have made this mistake and that their work would be checked.
Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew called the mistake another example of the government’s vaccine rollout failure.
“They wasted precious doses, made thousands of front-line health care workers wait hours on the phone and are last in the country in getting vaccines into Manitobans’ arms,” he said in a release.
“Now they can’t even get the address to the Keystone Centre correct.”
In the email thread, priorities and planning secretariat Adam Topp noted that correction notices have been texted to those with appointments.
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