News Item – ‘Highway medicine’ the new standard in rural Manitoba, residents complain

Keith Lundale, a councillor with the R.M. of West Interlake and member of the West Interlake Health Advocacy Committee called it a “crisis situation.”

“We’ve had cases where a critically-ill patient picked up at their home wanted to go to Eriksdale which is only 12 miles away, and been told by EMS we can’t go to Eriksdale because it’s closed, Ashern is on diversion, and so we’re going to Stonewall, only to be en route to Stonewall and diverted to another facility further north,” Lundale told CTV News Channel on Friday.

Full article at: CTV News