TORONTO Some of the Canadian Armed Forces members helping COVID-19 patients inside the field hospital at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have arrived and started working Friday morning. Thirty-four medical personnel made up of nurses and medical technicians from the Joint Task Force Central are helping care for non-critical patients who are recovered or nearly recovered from the virus. They will be doing patient management, patient care, EKG pacing, charting and triage. “Frankly, this is a fantastic mission,” said Task Force PRESIDIO Commander Franz Kirk. “My team is very excited to help and we had great volunteers from across the country to help today. Pandemic, no pandemic, when we have an opportunity to help Canadians were all in.”
Published Friday, April 30, 2021 4:23PM EDT A military task force that includes critical care nurses has been begun work at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, marking a new chapter in what has already been a devastating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 58 Canadian Forces members have been deployed to Sunnybrook to provide support in its ICU unit as well as the temporary field hospital that has been set up on its grounds. The troops arrived at the hospital on Tuesday but today marks the first day that they are involved directly in patient care. “The type of tasks that they will be doing specifically includes triage, patient care and patient management and the goal is to integrate as closely as possible and be able to assist the Sunnybrook staff where they deem it is needed the most,” Lieutenant Colonel Franz Kirk, who is leading the task force, told reporters on Friday afternoon. “I would say it is two-thirds in the tent and one
Military help for pandemic-hit Ontario hospitals starts at Sunnybrook in Toronto on Friday
Canadian military health-care and other personnel will start helping Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre s field hospital and ICU in Toronto starting Friday, part of its deployment to Ontario hospitals strained under COVID-19 caseloads. Talks are ongoing about Hamilton s and other hospitals needs.
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