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Family members of residents at Extendicare Kapuskasing are calling for more transparency amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
A virtual town hall was held by Mushkegowuk-James Bay MPP Guy Bourgouin Thursday night to discuss the outbreak at the long-term care home.
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Fifteen residents have died since the outbreak was declared at the facility on Jan. 7. Seventy staff and residents have tested positive.
“We’re hurting. When you’re a community like Kapuskasing of 9,000, we know mostly everybody,” Bourgouin said. “And families, friends are losing people in our community in such a bad way that families can’t even be there at the end.”
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There have been four more deaths related to the outbreak at the Extendicare Long-Term Care Home in Kapuskasing,
There have now been 11 deaths attributed to COVID-19 at that residence within a span of two weeks.
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The Porcupine Health Unit reported the deaths Wednesday afternoon.
Extendicare Kapuskasing had reported three deaths among its residence on its Facebook page earlier in the day.
“We are saddened to confirm two of our residents who were COVID-positive passed away yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, and an additional positive resident who was receiving care in hospital passed away overnight.”
The Embassy Grand used to be one of Brampton’s busiest wedding halls and event venues, but these days, it operates as a COVID-19 testing centre. The hall, once bursting with loud music and fancy dresses, has been transformed into a quiet and safe testing centre for the city’s large South Asian population.
On Saturday afternoon, Monika Bhatoe was standing in line awaiting the opportunity to be tested after her mother, a native Punjabi speaker, told her where she could get tested.
“She saw a poster at the grocery store and read it in Punjabi and she told me where to go,” she said. Having signs in Punjabi helps, says Bhatoe, pointing out there is a communication gap and, oftentimes, nuance missing from the English COVID-19 messaging coming from the province.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on every sector of Ontario’s health-care system.
Facing a pre-existing mental health crisis and rocked by necessary provincial regulations to curb the spread of the virus, the mental health and addictions sector in Northern Ontario is no different.
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Anticipating challenges at the onset of the pandemic, health-care professionals were hard at work on a project that sought to unite siloed health-care networks to ensure service continuity during the pandemic.