The Ontario government has created an online portal aimed at matching skilled frontline health-care workers with employers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Health Workforce Matching Portal will allow skilled workers — including retired or non-active health-care professionals, internationally educated health-care workers, volunteers with experience and students — to apply to join the province’s fight against COVID-19. “Our health-care heroes on the frontlines of this battle are doing extraordinary work, but they need reinforcements to step up and lend a hand to help defeat this virus,” Premier Doug Ford said in a statement. “Whether you’re retired or in training, we can’t afford to have people with professional health care skills who want