COVID-19.Dr. Foster had been working as the designated COVID-19 physician at the Bethesda Regional Health Centre in Steinbach, seeing first-hand the hit COVID-19 was taking on the health care system.“We rearranged the rehabilitation ward and opened up 10 COVID beds there.
We filled those the same day. The next day we opened up another wing of 10 beds and we had a total of 20 COVID beds and we filled those that day,” he said.“Because of the sheer number of COVID patients, that was the first week we designated a COVID doctor so I was the COVID doctor.