As universities close during the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of students at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine decided to put their free time to good use and create a network of volunteers helping frontline health care workers in the city.
The group is called “COVID-19 Student support initiative”. It pairs up students in the health domain with a local frontline health care worker in need of help with errands, grocery shopping, pet sitting and childcare.
Year-one medical students Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen, Zoe O’Neill, Laura Pinkham along with PhD student Adamo Donovan organized the initiative through Zoom meetings in order to respect social-distancing guidelines. “It feels like a good way to give back at this time,” Pinkham told Global News.