There are no more paramedics,” the health care union leaders said. “There are no more nurses in our province who can be deployed. The letter was also sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley, the leader of the official opposition.

'We're tired of being tired': Nurses rally in support of healthcare workers.Alberta reports 2,020 new COVID-19 cases, 18 deaths.Triage protocols made public by Alberta Health Services.Eighty-six per cent of those beds are occupied – largely by COVID-19 patients. “We are writing today as the presidents of Alberta’s largest health care unions and Alberta’s largest worker advocacy group to urge you in the strongest possible terms to call on the federal government to immediately deploy the military, the Red Cross and all available medical staffing resources from other provinces to assist our province’s overwhelmed hospitals,” the letter read.Īs the fourth wave of COVID-19 surges across Alberta, the province has begun to implement extraordinary measures to make room for the daily average of 20 new patients being admitted into the province's ICUs.Īlberta Health Services (AHS) began sharing and training staff on its critical care triage protocol, outlining how life and death decisions should be made if the province’s health-care system is overwhelmed past its breaking point, this week.įield hospitals have been prepared in Edmonton and Calgary and surge ICU beds in hospitals, AHS said.Īlberta has 310 ICU beds including 137 surge beds, AHS CEO Dr. The presidents of the United Nurses of Alberta (UNA), the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), the Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) and the Canadian Union of Provincial Employees (CUPE) all signed the letter. The leaders of the health-care unions in the province, representing 100,000 people working in the system, sent a letter Saturday saying it was their assessment that hospitals were no longer on the verge of collapse but that they were “actually collapsing in front of our eyes.” The leaders of four health-care unions and the Alberta Federation of Labour implored Premier Jason Kenney to submit a formal request for assistance from Ottawa as hospitals grapple with increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients.

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