Canada is scrambling to secure and deliver protective equipment for health-care workers battling the COVID-19 crisis. But once those masks and gloves arrive on the front line, some are worried they won’t be entitled to them. “Registered nurses come first.
Then you start to walk down the list afterward; there are people down that list,” said Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, which represents nearly 30,000 health-care workers in hospitals, long-term care facilities and emergency medical services. “There’s no question the priority is giving to nurses and doctors.
The problem is, it doesn’t do anything to those workers at the hospital being exposed to the same thing.” The workers “falling between the cracks” range from those who deliver food and