The Canadian Forces will deploy up to three medical teams in Ontario to provide support to hospitals that are struggling to deal with an influx of COVID-19 patients. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair announced the support late on Monday afternoon in response to a formal request for help from Ontario’s Solicitor General Sylvia Jones. According to a news release, the Canadian Forces will be deploying up to three “multi-purpose medical assistance teams” which will primarily be composed of nursing officers and medical technicians as well as additional Canadian Forces members “for general duty support.” The release says that the teams will be “rotated in and out of the province rather than deployed simultaneously to ensure that CAF support is sustainable.
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N.L. Premier Comments as More Health-Care Workers Depart to Help Ontario
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey speaks with reporters at an military hangar in St. John’s as a second volunteer team of health-care workers from the province depart to help Ontario in its fight against the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Art Rideout, a reconstructive surgeon at Eastern Health, and Michelle Murphy, a nurse in Eastern Health’s day surgery program, also speak with reporters. The team of three doctors and four nurses will be working in Brampton. A nine-member team left Newfoundland and Labrador on April 27 to help Toronto hospitals. That first team includes Dr. Allison Furey, an emergency physician and wife of the premier. (May 4, 2021) (no interpretation)
ST. JOHN S, N.L. A team of Newfoundland and Labrador health-care workers took off for Ontario Tuesday morning, hoping to help their central Canadian colleagues battle a deadly third wave of COVID-19 that has pushed the province s health-care system beyond its limits.
A massive Hercules military aircraft sat outside a St. John s hangar, waiting with its rear door wide open for the three doctors and two nurses to board. Dr. Arthur Rideout was one of them and he told reporters he was nervous about the job ahead. It s dire, Rideout said of conditions in Ontario. Their numbers and volume is much more, their capacity is being stretched.
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.