Woman's right leg amputated after waiting 8 days for bed at Winnipeg's HSC to treat open wound

A Manitoba woman had her right leg amputated after complications following a knee replacement surgery two months earlier.Roseanne Milburn, 61, went ahead with the scheduled amputation last Friday, after weeks of complications stemming from a post-surgery infection.In late November, a surgeon at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre began removing dead tissue from her right knee, with the intention of stitching her up later that day after she was seen by an orthopedic surgeon at Concordia Hospital.Sh