Dr. Ganesan Abbu said: “We hear this news almost every day, and I know it’s surprising.” “It’s hard…to know that almost 100% of our enrollees have not been vaccinated.”

Abbu is an anesthesiologist and special care physician at Boundary Trails, located more than 100 kilometers southwest of Winnipeg, between Morden and Winkler. Whether it’s a small city or the surrounding community, Has the lowest vaccination rate in the province.

In the past two weeks, more and more patients have flooded into the third wave of Manitoba. Abbu said that he and many of his colleagues woke up before dawn and recently started working just to keep up.

He said that the hospital has converted its two internal medicine and surgical departments into COVID-19 areas.The hospital also experienced oxygen shortages over the weekend Depends on the increase in the number of COVID-19 patients using ventilators.

Abbu said that the Boundary Trails nurse and the hospital’s sole respiratory therapist bear the heaviest workload.

Employees need to spend more time than hard work to face more work than usual.

“I think nurses find it difficult to deal with a community. Some parts of the community think it is a scam. The virus does not exist. There are other untrue things. For example, vaccines will be implanted with chips in every place. Among us One who has been vaccinated, people will be able to track us.” He said.

“Faced with the efforts of nurses and medical staff, they are indeed expanding themselves to help communities in need.”

Some employees have to deal with frustrated family members who cannot see their loved ones or think they have died of diseases other than COVID-19.

He said people laugh at the rules and it is common to enter the hospital without a mask.

He said: “They said it was a scam.” “We’ve been hearing it all the time.”

Abbu’s patients who have experienced personally are even dying. They still deny and continue to disagree with the epidemic.

Abu said: “I have already had two patients dead, and even when they died, they didn’t believe that they were dead.”

“This is not to say that we are trying to make patients aware that they have COVID before they die. These patients strongly deny that they are voluntarily providing this information.”

Although Abbu said that only a few of the people in the Southern Health District do not take COVID-19 seriously, what Boundary Trails employees see in the hospital is a bigger problem.

The Southern Health District has the lowest vaccination rate in Manitoba. More than 40% of people there received at least one dose, which is about 15% to 20% lower than any of the other four regions.

Manitoba health officials had to deal with Local religious and community leaders have recently tried to stimulate the use of vaccines. Although needles seem to be heading in the right direction in some communities, progress has been slow.

As of last Friday, about 12% of the Stanley health districts surrounding Winkler and Morden had received this dose, which is twice the number a month ago.

The prevalence in the Winkler Health District has increased from 14% at the end of last month to nearly 24%. Especially on Friday, the vaccination rate in Morden Medical District was 49%, while the vaccination rate in the neighbouring Altona Medical District was 36%, and the vaccination rate in Hanover and Steinbach districts was about 37%.

Provincial officials and religious leaders in the south have explained that vaccine hesitation is related to the government’s mistrust of the government, and the roots can be traced back decades or more. These include religious groups that have suffered historical harm at the hands of foreign governments before immigrating to Canada (including Mennonite communities).

Abu said that if he encounters patients in the clinic who are in relatively better condition and presents false ideas about the pandemic, he may discuss the evidence to the contrary with them.

When dealing with critically ill patients, he adopted different strategies, especially when they were lying on the trembling hospital bed next to the bed.

He said: “In this case, I will never challenge the patient.”

“You need to earn their trust. They must believe that you will do everything possible to help them survive. That’s what I want.”