Coquitlam
Port Coquitlam
Port Moody
Dufferin Care Centre staffer diagnosed with COVID-19
Families now separated from seniors in care facilities
Golden Spike Days, PoMo’s big summer party, cancelled
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COVID-19: MEDICAL RESPONSE
T ri- City docs tak e on testing challenge Local doctors’ group sets up COVID-19 testing site DIANE STRANDBERG dstrandberg@tricitynews.com
An employee at Costco in Port Coquitlam directs a customer while holding a sign encouraging people to practise social distancing to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Health officials are asking people to stay home and to stay away from others to help fight the global pandemic. For extensive pandemic coverage from The Tri-City News and its Glacier Media sister news organizations, go to tricitynews.com/covid-19. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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A shortage of face masks, gloves, goggles and other protective equipment has prompted Tri-City and New Westminster doctors to hold virtual appointments with patients and set up a COVID19 testing site so potentially infected patients don’t need to come to their offices. Across North America, frontline health care professionals have been crying out for personal protective equipment to avoid contracting COVID-19, and local family doctors are facing the same problem. Considered small businesses, family doctors aren’t
supplied by the health authorities, so they have to order their own equipment. The problem is that gowns, booties, gloves, protective eyewear and face masks are on back order because everyone is trying to get access to them. To deal with the problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fraser North Division of Family Practice — which represents 436 physicians, including local family doctors and MDs working in emergency rooms at Port Moody’s Eagle Ridge Hospital and New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital — launched a virtual doctor’s office website using the telemedicine program doxy. me and opened their own COVID-19 testing clinic, with approval and equipment from Fraser Health. SEE
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