Petition of 84,000 health care workers. More than 84,000 health care workers in Canada have signed a petition calling on the government to launch a “war-like” effort to acquire and manufacture PPE and other protective equipment using whatever means possible.
“We can’t be relying on the manufacturers across the globe for PPE. We should be making it in Canada and have it readily accessible to people here,” says Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, the emergency room physician in South Glengarry, Ont., who organized the petition.