Optometrists withdrew from performing provincially insured eye services from September to November 2021 amid a dispute over the amount they were being reimbursed.
Jennifer Cumpsty, the executive director of acute health services at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, says doctors and nurse practitioners are pitching in while new nurses are being trained.
Examining how many knee replacements happened within the recommended six-month time frame, one province's track record actually improved over the course of the pandemic.
It is the latest blow to the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, which has failed at times to live up to its plan to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
