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Hugh Armstrong, and Ivy Bourgeault outline in Chapter E-1 of this
book, have been a long-standing issue for staffâalso predominantly
women.22
In this context, the impact on long-term care residents of COVID-19
and government decisions around how to manage it were catastrophic.
While âhorror stories from Italy convinced authorities they had to free
up room on [hospital] wards and in intensive care units for potential
COVID-19 sufferers,â23 the obvious threat the virus posed in long-term
care facilities did not seem to register. In Quebec, like elsewhere:
The focus was on ensuring hospitals could manage their COVID-
19 caseloads⊠Officials opened as many hospital beds as possible
by postponing elective surgeries and relocating patients to hotels
or elder-care facilities. Instead, the virus struck hardest in those
very facilities for seniors. The ensuing devastation came in a part
of the system that had long been underfunded, understaffed, and
packed with vulnerable people.24
Reports from across Canada suggest that, even as patients were being
moved from hospitals to long-term care facilities without prior testing,
long-term care residents infected with COVID-19 were being denied
transfer to hospitals for treatment.25 Personal protective equipment and
Ontario Health Coalition <www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/wp-content/uploads/
FINAL-LTC-REPORT.pdf>; Québec, Protecteur du citoyen, Mémoire du Protecteur
du citoyen présenté à  la Commission de la santé et des services sociaux (Québec:
Protecteur du citoyen, 2013).
22. Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong and Ivy Bourgeault, this volume, Chapter E-1;
Canadian Health Coalition, supra note 19 at 11.
23. Blackwell, supra note 6 at A3; Grant & Ha, supra note 5.
24. Tu Thanh Ha, âHow Quebecâs Long-term Care Homes Became Hotbeds for the
COVID-19 Pandemicâ, GlobeÂ
andÂ
Mail (7 May 2020), online: <www.theglobeand-
mail.com/canada/article-how-quebecs-long-term-care-homes-became-hotbeds-
for-the-covid-1/>; Grant & Ha, supra note 5; Andrew MacLeod, âBC Seniorsâ
Homes Problems Arenât New: The Virus Showed They Could be Deadlyâ,
The Tyee (27 April 2020), online: <thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/27/BC-Seniors-
Homes-Problems-Arent-New/>.
25. Elizabeth Payne & Andrew Duffy, âNo-transfer Practice at Some Long-term
Care Homes Denies Residents Rights During Pandemic, Say Advocatesâ,
Ottawa Citizen (14 April 2020), online: <ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/
no-transfer-policy-at-some-long-term-care-homes-denies-residents-rights-dur-
ing-pandemic-say-advocates/>; Terry Reith, ââNo Benefitâ to Sending Seniors
ill with COVID-19 to Hospital, Some Nursing Homes Tell Loved Onesâ, CBC
News (3 April 2020), online: <www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-long-term-
care-1.5519657>; Editorial, âHow Canada Gave a Pandemic Key to the Countryâs
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International