‘Plan for the worst and hope for the best’: Canada’s funeral industry in upheaval as coronavirus deaths mount
Environmental-services workers can be at high risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases because they are responsible for cleaning patients’ hospital rooms. However, an investigation revealed that the man likely acquired the virus in the community and not at work, the hospital said. Toronto Public Health says 31 health care workers in the city have the disease, including 12 physicians.
Vicki McKenna, president of the Ontario Nurses Association, wants to know what it is about the working environment for health care workers that might be contributing to so many becoming sickened with COVID-19.
So very sad. Doctors and nurses usually get all the credit for running hospitals, but it's a total team effort. Housekeepers' work is vital to the running of hospitals and this man is as much as a hero as the doctors caring for the ill. RIP.
So sad RIP
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