Health Region CEO Helga Bryant says they ensure that people who are ill stay home and they are screening every person at the beginning of every shift to ensure the safety of staff, patients, hospitals and other sites from COVID-19.  She explains that in turn creates challenges for them in terms of being able to maintain their baseline staffing so they have reduced as has the whole province some services that can safely be put off or postponed until they are through COVID so that they can focus on the folks that need to be in hospital and really need that inpatient acute care and there may be more service reductions as they move through this.

Byrant also praised staff, physicians and volunteers for their hard work and the community for their co-operation as together we can overcome COVID.