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11 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Ontario is throwing hundreds of internationally trained nurses into the fight against COVID-19 as thousands of hospital staff call in sick or isolate daily and an Omicron wave of hospitalizations is expected to peak in early February.
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About 300 nurses are being deployed to 50 high-need hospitals “immediately” to care for patients under supervision and work toward getting their licences in the province, Ontario Health chief executive Matthew Anderson said Tuesday.
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They will be among the 6,000 extra health-care workers — including nursing students, medical students and other students from health-care programs — to join the COVID-19 effort by March 31, Health Minister Christine Elliott said.
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“Every nurse matters. Every person that we can get to that front line of care makes a difference,” said Anderson, whose agency co-ordinates the many parts of Ontario’s health-care system.
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Critics noted 300 nurses is an average of six per hospital and questioned why it took Premier Doug Ford’s administration almost two years into the pandemic to reach this step, at a time when big hospitals are seeing hundreds of staff members unable to work
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