Flin Flon’s patients transferred to Saskatchewan hospitals

WATCH: Nearly a dozen patients at Flin Flon’s hospital have been moved to facilities throughout Sask. following an evacuation order.

Nearly a dozen patients at Flin Flon’s hospital have been moved to facilities throughout Saskatchewan following an evacuation order in the Manitoba community.

Eleven Saskatchewan residents who were admitted to the Flin Flon hospital have been transferred to a handful of Saskatchewan communities including Tisdale, Shellbrook, Moosomin, and Regina.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) says it began transferring patients just after 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The SHA says it worked closely with the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance to transfer patients.

“There were significant time pressures with the wildfire and the safety concerns, and we had to move very quickly, and move a high number of patients in a quick time period,” said Derek Miller, COO of the SHA.

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Miller says many people worked tirelessly to transfer the patients – from point-of-care teams in Flin Flon and each of the receiving hospitals to the clinical teams that provided in-flight care, and those who matched patients to an appropriate facility and coordinated with healthcare providers.

He says all 11 patients were safely transferred around midnight on Wednesday.

“I’m so proud of the teams. Everybody rallied in order to be able to support those patients and get them safely to a hospital,” Miller said in an interview with CTV News.