coronavirus pandemic.The group of workers who are intellectually challenged or autistic assemble thousands of COVID-19 diagnostic testing kits for the West Island regional health board, the CIUSSS l’Ouest-de-l’île.Their productivity rate is enough to fill almost any manufacturer on the assembly line with envy.
Union representing Quebec health-care professionals demands recognition for work Collectively, they produce eight to twelve thousand kits a week while their quota set by the local health board requires seven thousand a week.“I’d say, I’m really focused and I’m really, like, in my zone when I’m doing the test kits,” Jed-Clyde Bermillo, one of the COVID-19 test kit assembly workers told Global News.The group has been doing this since.