The McGill University Hospital Centre (MUHC), in an internal memo dated March 23, ordered its managers to screen all personnel at the beginning of each shift.
Personnel will be asked eight questions on personal symptoms, travel and possible contact with COVID-19 positive individuals. Employees who responds yes to one of the questions according to the memo will immediately be sent for testing at the closest employee service location.
This new MUHC staff COVID-19 testing protocol marks a major switch in the test requirements previously established by the hospital centre.
Numerous employees had informed MB, that even though they showed some of the symptoms because they didn’t have a fever or a shortness of breath, the employer representatives informed them they did not qualify for testing.
The notice addressed to all managers, physicians and MUHC personnel was transmitted a day before Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann announced a revised provincial protocol to help protect patients and healthcare workers from COVID-19.
Among the directives included in the memo are that patients have to remain in their rooms during their hospital stay, and that all managers are to remind staff not to wear uniforms outside hospital grounds.
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