Breaking point: How the third wave of COVID-19 is battering the city of Brampton
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The third wave of COVID-19 is battering the city of Brampton in Ontario s Peel Region, where many essential workers have weathered the pandemic without paid sick days. We hear the stories of people living and working on the front lines of the crisis, and talk to those trying to help. Plus, we discuss the systemic inequity the city faces, and how that hurts all of Canada, with Dr. Brooks Fallis, a critical care physician at Brampton Civic Hospital; and Fatima Syed, a freelance reporter from Peel Region.
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A Stratford doctor is doing what he can to help care for COVID patients in one of the hardest-hit regions of the province.
With some extra time on his hands after Stratford General Hospital reduced the number of scheduled surgeries during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stratford anesthesiologist Dr. Collan Simmons has volunteered to work 12-hour shifts in the intensive care unit at Brampton Civic Hospital.
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“Locally, we have reduced our surgical caseload as mandated by the provincial government, so that’s kind of freed me up to provide services outside of what I would do here in Stratford – doing on-call work and providing anesthetics for surgery,” Simmons told the Beacon Herald Friday.
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Second team of medical volunteers from Newfoundland and Labrador arrive in Ontario
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A team of three doctors and four nurses from Newfoundland and Labrador arrive in Ontario on May 4, 2021. They are the second team sent to help out in Ontario s hospitals. CITYNEWS.
A second team of medical volunteers from Newfoundland and Labrador touched down in Ontario on Wednesday.
A team of three doctors and four nurses arrived on a military plane and will immediately be deployed to Peel Region – one of the hardest hit areas in the GTA.
They will be working in Brampton Civic Hospital’s COVID unit to provide supportive care.
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When Emily Viegas started exhibiting some of the same COVID-19 symptoms that had put her mother in hospital – difficulty breathing, an inability to stand – her father, Carlos, faced an agonizing situation.
He was the only one in his family of four who had tested negative for COVID-19 and was at home in Brampton, Ont., with his two children while his wife was at Brampton Civic Hospital on oxygen. Mr. Viegas was under strict self-isolation orders from public health and wasn’t sure if he should call an ambulance. He also knew Brampton Civic was one of the most strained hospitals in the country and he feared his daughter might be taken to a hospi