Sask. COVID-19 briefing provides more details on resumed services, staff redeployment
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A total of 450 staff members working in contact tracing, testing assessment and outbreak management are expected to return to their home departments within three weeks.
A provincial emergency operations centre (PEOC) briefing provided more details about what services are being prioritized to resume in Saskatchewan after being slowed down due to a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations.
As a result of responding to fourth wave, Derek Miller with Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) said 860 staff have been redeployed to ICUs, active services, contact tracing, testing and outbreak management.
A total of 450 staff members working in contact tracing, testing assessment and outbreak management are expected to return to their home departments within three weeks.
Marlo Pritchard said the province is looking at bringing on third-party contact tracers.
Miller said autism services and child psychology services are set to resume Nov. 11.
“More broadly across the province, we are resuming more aggressively, the children services concurrent to this, and that is certainly our priority in terms of programming to restart,” Miller said.
“As the numbers have decreased, we had surged up to be able to manage hundreds of cases a day that we’re not experiencing right now. So our reality is that we are at a point where we have resources that can be redeployed back to home units to resume services,” Miller added.
Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab said that as cases go down, the pressure on contact tracing is relieved.
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