The army is withdrawing soldiers deployed to the long-term care home where she's working, but for her, there's no end in sight. Nearly 5,000 Quebecers have now died of COVID-19, 68 per cent of them residents of long-term care institutions, known as CHSLDs. But recently, some of her colleagues at the CIUSSS Centre-Ouest Montréal, redeployed like she is, received a schedule for rotations at long-term care homes that goes into 2021. Rita, a social worker in Montreal's east end, is now on stress leave from her mandatory deployment to a CHSLD and now plans to leave the field of health care altogether. Julia predicts a "mass exodus" from the health care network unless the situation changes quickly.

Source: CBC News June 06, 2020 09:00 UTC