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Published Sunday, April 18, 2021 11:55AM EDT TORONTO Nurse Manpreet Kainth knows every patient being treated under her team s care in Humber River Hospital s intensive care unit. Even with her 16 years of experience, the ever-growing workload and the daily scenes unfolding before her eyes - more acutely ill COVID-19 patients and young people fighting for their lives - weigh heavily on her. There is no escaping that reality even when she s home with her family, who she tries not to burden with her worries. “Sometimes when I sleep, I just keep thinking,” she says during a short break after her team has intubated another COVID-19 patient struggling to breathe. “Those things are going through my mind and I just want to shut it down, just shut it off for a minute.”
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Registered nurse Stephanie Flores, who has been redeployed from the operating room to the intensive care unit, looks out the window in the ICU at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette April 18, 2021 - 8:43 AM
TORONTO - Nurse Manpreet Kainth knows every patient being treated under her teamâs care in Humber River Hospitalâs intensive care unit
Even with her 16 years of experience, the ever-growing workload and the daily scenes unfolding before her eyes - more acutely ill COVID-19 patients and young people fighting for their lives - weigh heavily on her.
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