Article contentOntario will invest over $52 million into recruiting and training over 3,700 additional healthcare workers and caregivers to support an already strained healthcare system against the second wave of COVID-19, Premier Doug Ford announced. The funding, Ford said Monday, will add 800 more nurses and 600 acute-care nurses, as well as 2,000 more personal support workers. Try refreshing your browser, or COVID-19 second wave: Ontario to invest $52 million to recruit, train 3,700 healthcare workers Back to videoThe province will invest an additional $14 million, Ford said, in training the extra personal support workers to work in long-term care homes and other community care settings. Health Minister Christine Elliott added that the province will invest $200,000 to improve the Ontario Matching Portal, which had been launched in April to help healthcare employers match with employees best suited to the system’s needs. The new funding, she said, will help deploy essential workers where they are needed the most, and will “ensure that the system is equipped to deal with a surge in cases.”

Source: National Post September 28, 2020 18:53 UTC