The public health flying team is expanding: 33 workers have been dispatched so far to regions with serious staff shortages. However, none of its members have been sent to Outaouais yet.
Currently, the flying team has 65 members, only half of whom have been deployed to the field. They are 21 orderlies, 6 nurses and 6 nursing assistants. Of these, 19 people were dispatched to Abitibi-Témiscamingue and 14 to the Côte-Nord.
As for the Outaouais, “we are continuing the work to send people as quickly as possible,” he said. Duty Julie Drolet, communications advisor to the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé.
The integrated health and social services centre (CISSS) of this region transmitted its staffing needs to Quebec on July 22. It is short of nurses and nursing assistants mainly in the emergency, operating room, surgical unit and intensive care sectors.
The flying team, originally promised for June 20, has quietly grown over the past few weeks. “We are now maintaining pressure for the recruiting teams to deploy reinforcements to the field even more quickly,” Mr. Dubé’s office said Wednesday.
Last Thursday, the Quebec government reached an agreement with the Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la santé et des services sociaux (APTS), in particular so that educators and social workers can be part of the flying team. This agreement includes, among other things, a flat rate of $100 per day.
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