Just over a year to the day of the incident taking place comes word of fines against a local nurse and manager for transporting a newborn baby to a Winnipeg hospital using a handivan.
According to a report by the CBC, the healthcare professionals were fined by their regulator for actions they say, "had the potential to seriously harm the patient, as well as the profession."
On October 5th of last year, a baby was brought in to the Dauphin Regional Health Centre, where staff decided the child needed to be taken to Winnipeg's Children's Hospital.
But Manitoba's Medical Transportation Coordination Centre decided that the child could not be transported by air ambulance due to poor weather, adding the child would be transported once a ground ambulance was available.
But, when the infant's parents expressed a desire to leave the emergency department against medical advice to take their baby to Winnipeg themselves, the manager arranged for a handivan to transport the child, and a nurse agreed to take the child.
