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Nurses run 50 km across Montreal to show support for their colleagues A group of four Montreal-area nurses ran about 50 kilometres on Sunday along a route between nine hospitals and three long-term care homes to send a message don t give up under the pressure, and pay attention to your mental health. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: May 17, 2021 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 17 From left, Mélanie Myrand, Sarah Bachand, Natalia Mursa Curchi and Rosein (Gülin) Yilmaz. The four women ran just over 50 kilometres on Sunday to send a message.(Simon Nakonechny/CBC) ....
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MONTREAL The second wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed some Montreal morgues to the point that refrigerated trucks are being used, as they were in the spring, to store human remains, CTV Montreal has confirmed. These alternative spaces for the management of remains have been used to ensure that we store COVID-19-related remains in a safe manner, said Helene Bergeron-Gamache, a spokesperson for the health authority for Montreal s West Island. She was responding to a question specifically about the second wave. She said the refrigerated trucks have been used less recently, however, so far, than in the first wave. ....
At the Jewish General Hospital, where under normal circumstances there are 24 intensive care beds, capacity has been increased to 30, with 20 of those occupied by COVID-19 patients, according to ICU chief Paul Warshawsky. All the ICUs in Montreal in particular are working to increase their capacity, he said. There are plans to go up to 32 to 34, depending on how we decide to do it. Then we have to open a second ICU, which we did in the first wave in what was the cardiology department. But in the first wave, that was a little easier to do because for reasons we still don t understand, there were less cardiac patients. ....