Death bed denials, pandemic 'hoax' accusations common in southern Manitoba hospital patients, doctor saysA southern Manitoba hospital physician says staff are exhausted by a recent crush of admissions, but they're also up against something else that's draining energy and morale.
Staff at Boundary Trails Health Centre are routinely hearing from sick and unvaccinated patients who believe the pandemic is a hoax — some remaining defiant even on the brink of death.
"We hear this almost every day, and I know that's startling," said Dr. Ganesan Abbu. "It's difficult ... to know that almost 100 per cent of our admissions have not been vaccinated."
"I think nurses have found it difficult to handle a community, certain segments of the community, who believe that this is a hoax, that the virus doesn't exist, and other untruths, like the vaccine is going to put a chip into each one of us who's been vaccinated and people will be able to track us," he said.
Abbu has personally experienced patients who, even nearing death, remained in denial and continued to assert untruths about the pandemic. "I've had two patients who have died and even right until the time that they died, they didn't believe that they had it," Abbu said.
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