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Health care job vacancies in Canada are soaring despite COVID-19 demand. Here’s why.
COVID-19 pandemic.But despite the growing need for health care professionals, job vacancies in the sector are on the rise, according to the latest data from Statistic Canada.Job vacancies in health care and social assistance went up by 36,400 or 56.9 per cent during the last quarter of 2020, bringing vacancies to a “record high” of 100,300, according to the data published Tuesday. ‘We are not superhuman’ — Health-care workers plead for more mental health support “These results are not surprising,” said Carolyn Levy, president of employment agency Randstad Canada.Hospitals led the charge with 15,700 vacancies, followed by nursing and residential care facilities which saw 10,800 vacancies at the end of last year.