Health-care workers at St. Michael’s and St. Joseph’s hospitals are being told that due to shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic they’ll soon need to reuse N95 masks that have been decontaminated. An undated memo from hospital network Unity Health Toronto obtained by the Star, states that they have been collecting used N95 masks instead of throwing them away. We are working on reprocessing for N95 masks and don’t have more to share at this time,” she added. Staff should not change the N95 respirator unless it becomes damaged or soiled — it should last an entire shift,” the memo says. This includes a scenario to reprocess N95 masks in case there is ever a need,” they added.

Source: thestar April 10, 2020 22:18 UTC