An in-patient at Regina’s Pasqua Hospital was “mobile enough to be out and about on the ward” in the days prior to receiving a COVID-19 diagnosis, says the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses. “The potential for a very big problem here is great,” said union president Tracy Zambory.
She noted two emergency room nurses and one nurse working in a different area of that hospital reached out with concerns about how the situation is being handled, after public health authorities called to tell them they had been in contact with someone with COVID-19.
Zambory said it’s troubling that’s how health care workers at the facility are learning about the situation. “The health authority, the ministry, they need to have our back so we’re safe,” she said. “We’re