Scarborough nurse creates support group for other nurses during incredibly difficult third wave
by Germain Ma
Scarborough nurse Eram Chhogala. RNJ
A Scarborough nurse is putting together a support group for nurses to help one another deal with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eram Chhogala, a nurse at the Scarborough Health Network, says it’s been “incredibly difficult” for her and her colleagues working on the frontlines.
She says hospital volumes are high with COVID-19 variants and that watching people struggle to breathe is “the hardest thing.”
“A lot of people have this moral residue where they think that they could’ve, would’ve should’ve – even though they had done their very best,” said Chhogala.
Posted: May 02, 2021 8:40 AM ET | Last Updated: May 2
Medical transport staff arrive at Villa Leonardo Gambin, in Vaughan, Ont., on Feb. 5, 2021. Reflections from public health experts and relatives of seniors who died in virus-ravaged facilities have poured in after the Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission called for an overhaul of the sector.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
The spotlight on Ontario s long-term care sector must not be allowed to dim again, observers said the day after the release of a scathing report outlining the province s neglect of the facilities in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reflections from public health experts and relatives of seniors who died in virus-ravaged facilities poured in after the Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission called for an overhaul of the sector.
The expanded vaccine rollout includes the following age and priority groups:
May 3: Adults age 18 and up in hot-spot communities.conditions deemed high risk ; and some people who cannot work from home.
May 6: Ontario adults over the age of 50; those with health conditions deemed high risk ; and some people who cannot work from home including teachers and school workers; and First Nation, Inuit and Metis people not previously targeted in earlier phases of the immunization drive.
Week of May 10: Ontario adults over the age of 40; those with health conditions deemed at risk and more individuals who cannot work from home.
Week of May 17: Ontario adults over the age of 30.