Inadequate cooling systems result in uncomfortable residents and staff who tire quickly and move more slowly
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Families left portable fans for their parents at the doorsteps of nursing homes. Dehydrated medical workers staggered under their protective gear. Health officials scrambled to install air conditioners and worried about whether ventilation systems could spread the coronavirus.
Donning a protective gown felt like wearing a plastic bag, he said. He also had to deal with sweat trickling from his face shield. The toll of hot weather on long-term care residents in Ontario will be harder to discern, as the province does not properly track heat deaths, she said.Outside elder-care facilities, the pandemic is also challenging for people without home air conditioning while shopping malls, cinemas and swimming pools are still shuttered.
City Councillor Joe Cressy, chairman of Toronto’s board of health, said the city knows it has to do more as more hot weather approaches. “COVID-19 has exposed and is taking advantage of our existing inequalities and failures as a society.” The AQRP, an association of retired Quebec public servants, has long raised concerns before about the lack of cooling equipment in seniors’ homes. “It’s a recurring problem. Governments come and go and the problems of elderly people isn’t their main concern,” AQRP president Rose-Mary Thonney said in an interview.
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