NL team happy to help fellow Canadians
He’s usually one of the ones getting on the plane, but Andrew Furey was at St. John’s International Airport Tuesday as Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier to see off his wife, Allison, and eight other medical professionals on a unique relief mission within Canada’s own borders.
The team three doctors, a nurse practitioner and five registered nurses is a contingent sent to Ontario via a Canadian Forces Hercules transport plane to help alleviate the burden on health-care workers in that province.
They gathered for a sendoff in a small military hangar on a wet and windy morning about an hour before departing.