Posted: May 12, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 12
Deepi Saharan, an intensive care unit nurse in the Toronto area who cares for COVID-19 patients, says some physicians working under nurses in ICUs are earning as much as $450 an hour. Her recent post on Instagram received support from thousands of people.(Submitted by Deepi Saharan)
Two Toronto-area nurses are airing their frustrations over how the Ontario government let their pandemic pay expire while continuing to pay boosted wages to doctors, some of whom are doing the same work as nurses due to COVID-19.
Deepi Saharan, 27, received support from thousands of people when she
Toronto nurse is blasting Ford for paying doctors more than 10 times what nurses get
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It s Nurses Day and nurses across Toronto being are applauded for the invaluable work they re doing right now, but an ICU nurse says the Ontario government should hold its applause during what is also International Nurses Week 2021 and put its money where its mouth is.
A 27-year-old nurse caring for COVID-19 patients in an ICU says that, more than a year into COVID, she and her colleagues remain burnt out and underpaid.
B.C. physicians are earning three to four times more than registered nurses to work in COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics and Ontario doctors are being paid up to five times as much
Toronto-area doctors still earn much more than nurses even when filling in as nurse extenders during pandemic.
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Buddhist monks wear face masks to help protect themselves from the coronavirus as they pray at the Traimit Temple in Bangkok on Tuesday. The monks pray to boost the country s morale during the pandemic. (Thanachote Thanawikran/The Associated Press)
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