The province made two confusing announcements this week about hiring desperately-needed personal support workers for long-term care homes.
One would think they have no plan when it comes to ensuring lessons have been learned from the COVID-19 crisis, which has claimed the lives of 3,739 long-term care (LTC) residents to date, more in the second wave than the first.
Or, it’s just that they’re as disorganized as they are on the vaccine rollout file — the embarrassing fiasco created by the Trudeau government.
I’m left scratching my head as to what Premier Doug Ford and Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton are doing.
Last Oct. 23 — as the second wave of COVID was heating up — the province’s own Long-Term Care Commission issued a five-page letter with interim recommendations.
The first couldn’t have been clearer about beefing up staffing in LTC homes — in particular personal support workers (PSWs ) to perform the extra duties needed when homes were in outbreak.
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