NAPE says health care workers are running on empty following 2 years working through the pandemic.
NAPE president, Jerry Earle says they have been burning the candle at both ends and he wonders how much longer exhausted workers can “continue to prop up an early-beleaguered health care system.”
Hundreds of health care workers across the province are currently isolating.
The province reported 40 are hospitalized due to COVID-19 yesterday. He says government talks about “living with COVID” but he thinks a plan is needed for what that life will looks like because it appears the province “is making it up day by day.”
The provinces health minister admits managing COVID-19 continues to be a challenge.
John Haggie says having frontline staff isolating is putting added strain on the system as COVID continue to rise.
He acknowledges the evolving situation is a concern, and health officials are monitoring the situation closely.
The positive news says Haggie is that the number of staff in isolation across the health care system dropped just over 780 on Monday. He calls that significant drop compared to the last figures, which was 1,000.