Prairie Mountain Health (PMH) is providing an update on the situation at the Dauphin hospital after an outbreak was declared on Friday, Jan. 15.
A statement from PMH CEO Penny Gilson indicates they’re working through the current outbreak in the medicine unit at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre (DRHC).
Endoscopy and surgical services will continue, while regular scheduled surgical cases are restricted to outpatients only. Emergency surgery is still being performed.
Gilson states this is out of an abundance of caution "to protect the bed capacity for medical admissions on the surgery unit as needed".
PMH says the emergency department at the hospital remains open, continuing to see and treat people with conditions or symptoms that are not related to COVID-19.
During the pandemic, all patients who arrive at emergency departments in the Prairie Mountain Health region are screened and assessed by the appropriate health-care providers.
The province has not yet provided any statistics on the number of cases associated with the DRHC outbreak.
The ongoing outbreak at the McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre in Prairie Mountain Health has identified 42 total COVID infections (14 staff, 28 non-staff) and four deaths.
