Workers at the understaffed and overwhelmed Grace Dart Extended Care Centre take a moment to pay tribute to their fallen colleague Victoria Salvan on Friday.
They walked to the windows of the facility in full protective gear and held a moment of silence. After decades of working gruelling hours caring for those who can’t care for themselves, Salvan died of COVID-19 last week, Quebec’s first patient attendant to be killed by the virus. “Every day, I’m crying,” said Farrah Lunay, a licensed practical nurse at Grace Dart. “Every day I wake up, I see her face.” Lunay has worked at Grace Dart since 2003 and got to know Salvan well. “When she was tired, I used to massage her shoulders,” Lunay told Global News.