Manitoba

A personal care home in Winkler, Man., has been forced to close 26 desperately needed beds after its elevator became unstable, and petitioned the provincial government for months before Shared Health finally committed to fund the repair.

Karin Oliveira, CEO of Salem Home, had to make the difficult decision last month to move 26 people off the facility's second floor after she lost confidence in the elevator that kept breaking down.

The province conducted 26,321 CT scans at facilities across Manitoba in August of this year, a 3.3 per cent increase from the 25,470 cases performed the prior August, according to provincial data.

[Progressive Conservative health critic Kathleen] Cook called that a "marginal increase" that "does not justify the huge jumps in CT scan wait times," she said in an interview Tuesday.