May 11, 2021
By Kristena Schutt-Moore
This year has been hard on many businesses and community organizations. The Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Unit is not much different. During the HPE Board of Health meeting on Wednesday, May 5 the board reviewed the annual audit for 2020.
In 2020 the HPEPH had a total of $16,184,489 in expenditures, which is an increase of expenses of roughly $766,649 from the year before.
However, they did end the year with an overall surplus of $678,606. Which makes the health unit’s accumulated surplus a total of $7,171,956. Of that the auditor says that roughly $3 million is in the value of tangible assets, $2.034 million is in reserves and the operation fund is at $1.548 million.
There are now a total of 83 active COVID-19 cases between the two counties.
Three of the new cases today are listed as close contacts, one is travel and the remaining four are still pending.
Hospital staff are treating 17 people, with seven in ICU and five on a ventilator.
The outbreak declared on April 28th at a workplace in Belleville has been declared over. In that situation, three cases of the virus were linked.
We now have a total of six active outbreaks:
Quinte Health Care – Belleville General Hospital’s Quinte 5 Unit – Declared April 27 – 26 cases linked to date.
Quinte Health Care – Belleville General Hospital’s ICU – Declared May 4 – 3 cases linked.
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The federal government’s decision to delay the second dose of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines by upwards of four months has been controversial. What is not controversial is that our heroic health-care workers deserve all the protection they can get, because they are the ones putting themselves in harm’s way on a daily basis. And yet, they too are being forced to wait unreasonably long periods of time to get the protection they need. Now, two physicians from Belleville, Ont., have gone public to explain why front-line health-care workers deserve second vaccine doses immediately.
“There is good benefit from one dose; however, if two doses provides the best protection against death, hospitalization, infection and transmission, this is the level of protection we want for our front-line health-care workers,” wrote Dr. Michele Miron, an emergency physician, and Dr. David Weinstein, a nephrologist, on a local news website. “This level of protection is critical for t
We’ve hit a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic, as the number of new cases continues to climb locally.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health has recorded now over 1,000 cases of the virus, since the pandemic began in March of 2020.
The region has seen a total of 1,004 cases overall, as of today.
Health officials are reporting 17 new cases today, and 10 more recoveries. Seven of the new cases reported are listed as variants of concern.
There are now a total of 81 active COVID-19 cases between the two counties.
Hospital staff are treating 17 local COVID-19 patients, with six in ICU and six on a ventilator.