Medical laboratory workers want to raise awareness of their work

Especially since the pandemic has significantly increased the workload of these employees, and they do not receive a bonus for this increase in their tasks, deplores Isabelle Mantha.

In the last year, there was a pandemic, which we still experience today, which brought an additional workload to laboratories which were already overloaded.

8000 additional tests per week

Laboratory workers also fear that a new ministerial order requiring some health workers who refuse to be vaccinated take three drug tests per week will make their work even more difficult.

<q data-attributes="{"lang":{"value":"fr","label":"Français","data":{"id":"fr","name":"Français"}},"value":{"html":"Demander aux salariés de la santé qui n’ont pas été vaccinés de se faire dépister trois fois par semaine, ça va amener une augmentation de dépistage de la COVID encore sur les laboratoires qui sont surchargés. Pour nous, en Estrie, ça équivaut environ à 8000tests per week which would be additional to what we are currently experiencing “”, “text”: “Asking health workers who have not been vaccinated to be screened three times a week, that will lead to an increase in screening COVID still on the laboratories which are overloaded. For us, in Estrie, that is equivalent to approximately 8000 tests per week which would be additional to what we are currently experiencing “”}} “lang =” fr “>Asking health care workers who have not been vaccinated to be screened three times a week, this will lead to an increase in COVID screening again on laboratories which are overloaded. For us, in Estrie, that equates to approximately 8,000 tests per week which would be additional to what we are currently experiencing., emphasizes Isabelle Mantha.

The demonstration at the Fleurimont Hospital coincided with the National Medical Laboratory Week, which takes place from April 11 to 17.

With information from Marion Bérubé

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