It’s not just health-care workers in hospitals who have to don masks, gowns, gloves and face shields in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Paramedics have to do the same when responding to 911 calls in the field, depending on the situation, according to paramedic Jeremie Hurtubise, who has been on the job for 20 years. “We’re given details by dispatch through their screening whether a patient is COVID positive, COVID negative or inconclusive,” he told Global Kingston.
Those particulars determine the choices paramedics make in what type of protective gear they have to put on. Putting on personal protective equipment happens when the paramedics appear at the site of the call.