Thread by @drhassoun

I don’t want to share with you the details of a very tragic and horrible week in the ICU that I finished because some may not be able to relate to how out of control the situation is. 🧵 1/8

I don’t want to share with you the number of times I felt defeated as I said to grieving family that I’m sorry patient has passed and filled a death certificate and felt so angry on my drive home

Instead I will share some hard facts that tells you exactly where we are going🧵2/8

1- SK now has the highest new case rate among all provinces in Canada per 100,000.

2- In the last 14-days SK has the highest COVID death rates in Canada 🧵 3/8

3- SK has canceled over 200 surgeries per day for its citizens over the last 14 days. That is a total of 2800 surgeries in two weeks. That is 2800 families that will now have to join the wait. 🧵 4/8

4- The next few admissions to the ICU will not be in the physical ICU space, We will get creative with space and you should be aware that we are about to run out of actual specialized ICU nursing staff. 🧵 5/8

This should concern you regardless of your vaccine status because an ICU bed is needed after a bad car accident, brain bleed, any major planned serious surgery, massive heart attacks, major infections, trauma etc. 🧵 6/8

If this continues for two more weeks, the province of Saskatchewan will send its people to Ontario so their lives can be saved otherwise they will die needlessly if that is not done because we will be extremely short staffed without any possibility to staff safely. 🧵 7/8

The military, Red Cross will work to save the lives of our citizens because our government didn’t.

I am angry. I am angry. I am angry. You should be too. 🧵 8/8