Top physicians warned Winnipeg hospitals nearing 'disintegration' in March letter
2026-06-29 from cbc.ca
Top Winnipeg doctors warned in a confidential letter in March that urgent care centres might have to close and another patient death was inevitable unless immediate changes were made.
They say physicians are "repeatedly forced to choose" who gets care first, knowing the condition of other patients might decline while they wait.
"We do not want to stand at the bedside of another person who deteriorated due to preventable delays and gaps in care — knowing their outcome would have been different," the letter, which was addressed to health-care leadership, said.
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