CHEO is giving the public an unprecedented look at how it is managing high patient volumes and staffing challenges this fall to keep its pediatric intensive care unit open to "life and limb" patients.
Rather, the Liberals complained about last-minute cancellations of scheduled second doses for seniors and health care workers.
“Imagine how concerned Wendy Bingham was when the second-dose appointment for her mother was abruptly cancelled on the very day that it was scheduled to take place,” said Opposition leader Shirley Bond.
“Another two months of being locked in their facility with no interaction with the outside world,” added Bond, quoting Bingham.
Opposition MLA Renee Merrifield read out a health care worker’s complaint about the 11th hour cancellation of her second dose: “I took the day off work, because I also work as an education assistant. I went to the appointment early. There was no one waiting at the screening station. If Fraser Health was able to notify me by text to make an appointment, could they not also have easily sent one out cancelling it?”
“I think, by the summer, we are going to be able to be doing a lot more of those connections that we need that are going to help us get through the trauma we have all experienced together.” Henry said expected shipments of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine 60,000 doses are scheduled to arrive next week and the promise of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, now under review, will move up the timeline to ensure everyone who wants one gets a first dose by early summer, rather than September. Next week’s shipment of AstraZeneca doses will be targeted to areas where there are clusters and outbreaks of COVID-19.
SALEM â Oregon meat processors could vie for $10 million in grants under a bill that seeks to build on a state inspection program authorized last year.
House Bill 2785 would create a grant program overseen by the stateâs Department of Agriculture to invest in constructing, expanding and upgrading meat processing facilities.
The proposal aims to help meat processors whoâd operate under the ODAâs state inspection program, which would regulate these facilities for in-state commercial meat sales.
Once the state inspection program is fully functional and approved by the federal government, meat from these facilities could also be sold in interstate commerce.