Nurses currently working on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis are raising serious concerns about shortages of staff, testing and protective gear.
Quebec’s premier is now calling on health-care workers to avoid travelling from one facility to another. But some nurses insist they have no choice. “We’re all doing double shifts, we’re all doing eight in a row,” said Joanne Scullion, a licensed practical nurse at St-Mary’s hospital.
Scullion is part of a team of workers recently sent to Residence Herron on Dorval, when her regional health agency, the West Island CIUSSS, stepped in and placed the long-term care facility (CHSLD) under trusteeship.