Simply no way that medical radiation technologists could be considered anything other than frontline. MRTs are in direct contact with COVID-19 daily, in ERs, ICUs, imaging depts, elsewhere. @fordnation@celliottability@PBethlenfalvy include ALL essential workers. #pandemicpay
@fordnation For the 3rd time, the ON gov’t updated the list of those eligible for pandemic pay to include everyone in the hospital including those who have zero contact with patients let alone the ones suspected or positive for COVID.
Still, Diagnostic Imaging staff are excluded.
Dear Premier @fordnation ,
I am a Registered Medical Radiological Technologist working in the CT and Interventional department at one of Toronto’s busiest hospitals.
To exclude us from your list of front line healthcare workers is demeaning, and devalues our vital roles in the care of patients. It minimizes the years of specialized schooling, the mandatory yearly continuing education, the decades of skill that I have acquired.