Last Updated Monday, April 26, 2021 5:47PM EDT 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.”
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Last Updated Monday, April 26, 2021 3:13PM EDT The Ontario government has formally requested assistance from the Canadian military to deploy medical staff in hospitals that are struggling to deal with an influx of COVID-19 patients in need of critical care, according to Ontario’s Solicitor General Sylvia Jones. In a statement released Monday, Jones said the province has been working with the federal government to “identify health human resources” that could be deployed in Ontario. “At the conclusion of that process, we have made a request for the assistance of those identified resources, many of whom reside, for example, within the Canadian Armed Forces and Canadian Red Cross organizations.” Jones’ statement read.
Military to provide medical personnel to help Ontario
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Apr 26, 2021 at 2:58 pm EDT
OTTAWA The federal government will announce this afternoon the provision of military medical personnel to help Ontario’s beleaguered health-care system with a third wave of COVID-19.
A senior government official, granted anonymity to discuss matters not yet public, confirmed to The Canadian Press the military will help the struggling province.
The plan involves providing teams of nurses and medical technicians to hospitals and other facilities struggling to keep up with a spike of new infections.
Such teams were deployed into long-term care facilities in Ontario and Quebec last spring as the first wave of COVID-19 swept across the country.