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TORONTO More than a year after a state of emergency was first declared in Ontario, nurses are feeling underappreciated, undercompensated and under respected feelings heighted by knowledge of a temporary COVID-19 pay scale being used by physicians redeployed to work alongside the “health-care heroes.” Over the past month, the number of patients in Ontario hospitals being treated for COVID-19 has been in the quadruple digits daily. Admission in the province’s intensive care units (ICU) reached an all-time high of 900 at the start of the month and as of Friday sits at about 853. Of those patients, 611 are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.
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TORONTO, April 28, 2021 /CNW/ - The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) supports recommendations made by the Auditor-General s Report on the lack of preparedness for preventing COVID-19 in long-term care homes. As the union representing front-line registered nurses and health-care professionals working in the province s long-term care homes, we appreciate the Auditor-General s recognition of the seriousness of the staffing shortage in these homes, says ONA President Vicki McKenna, RN. The report cites ONA s own concerns about short-staffing in long-term care, which we have raised for decades as a barrier to care for vulnerable residents.
McKenna notes that ONA s work regarding concerns about the lack of effective infection prevention and control (IPAC) training, principles and protocols for long-term care has also been cited by the Auditor-General. This was vital during the pandemic and put both residents and staff at risk of infection. ONA
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Some people with COVID-19 are becoming ill so quickly they die in the community before they can seek medical help, Ontario outbreak response coordinator Dr. Dirk Huyer says.
About two people a day over the past two weeks have been found dead in their homes, in excess of anything observed during the first and second wave of the pandemic, he said.
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“We have been seeing a number of people dying in the community outside the hospital, which is new, unfortunate and sad because these people have not been able to obtain health care because the disease affected them so quickly and so seriously, leading to deaths in the community,” he said.