(Photo by WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images) HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania state health officials are “being misinformed” about the availability of personal protective equipment inside hospitals, one of the state’s largest nurses’ unions alleges in a letter that says hospitals have “resorted to severe rationing” even as they resume elective surgeries.
The 8,400-member Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals said in a letter to the state health secretary, Dr.
Rachel Levine, that working conditions inside hospitals remain unsafe because of lax COVID-19 guidance issued by the Health Department and the U.S.