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Ontario authorizes workers from other provinces, outside hospitals amid ICU strain
by Holly McKenzie-Sutter and Shawn Jeffords, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Posted Apr 22, 2021 8:14 pm EDT
Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, responds to a question during a press conference regarding COVID-19 vaccine distribution, at Queen s Park in Toronto on Friday, December 11, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
Health-care workers from other provinces and non-hospital settings could be deployed to Ontario’s overburdened intensive care units as early as next week, the health minister said Thursday as the government issued emergency orders to pave the way for those transfers.
Christine Elliott said the moves are meant to get the most out of available resources as the province fights a devastating third wave of COVID-19 infections that have been pushing Ontario hospitals to their limits.
As Canada faces its third wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, experienced nurses are leaving emergency departments for less demanding positions or retiring early.
In the fourth quarter of 2020, job vacancies in Canada’s health care sector hit a record high of 100 300 up
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A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as health-care staff provide life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully.
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