Another 50 beds are opening at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre to help reduce wait times, the province announced Monday.
There will be 35 medicine beds, 10 psychiatric beds and five surgical beds added to Manitoba’s biggest hospital, the provincial government said in a news release — and 27 medicine beds and nine psychiatric beds are already open, officials said at a news conference held at HSC.
The beds will improve patient flow, reducing strain on emergency rooms, Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said.
“HSC has the busiest emergency department in the province. It is our busiest hospital,” Asagwara said at the news conference. “It will benefit our entire health-care system.”
The 50 beds are among 151 new acute care beds at Manitoba hospitals funded in the provincial budget released April 2, the province said, including 31 new beds at Grace Hospital and 36 at St. Boniface Hospital that were announced in November and January, respectively.
The new HSC beds will open over the next year, the news release said.