File with 1,000 patient records taken from office in Winnipeg hospital
WINNIPEG — Police are investigating the theft of a file containing the records of about 1,000 patients from Manitoba’s largest hospital.
The file was taken from a diagnostic imaging office at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre on Oct. 7, said Real Cloutier, vice-president and chief operating officer of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
“I want to assure the public we are doing everything possible to actually recover the file,” Cloutier told a news conference Wednesday.
“We don’t think it was somebody from the public, but … the investigation will determine that.”