Many healthcare workers are feeling stressed, tired and overworked as the second wave of COVID-19 has upped the workload at local hospitals.
Due to a shortage of health care workers, Quinte Health Care staff have been pulling double shifts and long days just trying to keep up with the pandemic, all while balancing their everyday lives outside of work.
Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation Executive Director Wendy Warner is trying to remind everyone in our communities to show their support again as things continue to get tougher.
“During the first wave our staff received tremendous support, even the little things went a long way, and we would like to ask our community to show that support again now more than ever,” said Warner.
“It can be as simple as putting a sign in your window, or sending us a letter or email. It doesn’t need to be money or gifts, we would just like to see support throughout the community again to show how much you care,” Warner adds.
Local organizations have stepped up, including the Trenton Rotary Club and Smylie’s Independent, who are providing packaged snacks for health care workers throughout the long strenuous days.
Warner says she expects things to get worse in the coming weeks as new projections in Canada are calling for up to 10,000 cases per day. Meanwhile hospitals in Ontario have been asked to provide a percentage of space to accommodate patients from other regions, meaning more long, stressful days ahead for health care workers locally.
Warner is calling on Our TMH to print lawn and window signs to show support as well as any other suggestions that might engage the community and show our healthcare workers that we have their backs, as they have had ours.
