Manitoba has sent two cardiac patients out of the province so they can get surgery next week, a Shared Health spokesperson says.

Both patients were staying at home prior to being cleared travelling via medevac. One was sent to a facility in Ontario and the other was sent to Quebec.

Manitoba health care is inundated by COVID-19 cases, and that’s affecting other health services, including having to reduce surgical capacity to focus on “those most urgent and emergent cases,” the spokesperson said.

As a result,