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“I’ve been working in distribution for 19 years at the hospital.   What I do for my job is everything coming from our warehouse goes into the receiving area. And from the receiving area, we distribute to the hospital wards and areas like the OR and ICU.   …

“I’ve been an HEU member for 20 years in July. I work as a Rehabilitation Assistant on a surgical floor. My position is to support the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist, so a lot of it is organizing equipment, wheelchair maintenance, making …

“I tested positive for COVID back in March 2020, and was hospitalized. It was quite scary. I was in the high acuity unit for five or six days, and then I got moved down to a medical floor for a couple of days.   They almost intubated me, but luckily my …

“A lot of people don’t think we’re high-risk or frontline. I disagree with that because we do go into what they call the ‘hot zones’. If something needs to be taken care of, then we have no other choice but to go in there and fix it. I kind of get hurt …

"When COVID came so abruptly, there were many changes: staff changes, people leaving, people taking on other professions in clinical areas. Many housekeepers had left due to the fear of COVID. I told myself, ‘No one is going to do this, so I’m going to do …

“I feel proud as a Medical Device Reprocessing Technician because we are the backbone of the OR. If we do not provide the correct surgical instruments and supplies that are sterilized and work properly, they are not able to do surgery.   We feel like we …

“I’m a Housekeeper, and since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve been working in the Emergency Room (ER) at the hospital.   On top of the daily duties that I have, like cleaning bathrooms, in the ER we’re called to do ‘droplet cleans’, meaning that we do …

“As a Dispatch Supply Technician, I coordinate, lead and dispatch the activities for our Logistics Drivers to set up mobile blood clinics around the Lower Mainland, where people can donate their blood.   The blood products are then supplied to hospitals …

“It’s been a tough year. I have grandchildren that I don’t get to see because of the provincial health orders. My daughter is pregnant; she’s due in July, so I’m really hoping to be able to hold this grandbaby.   I’m talking to my grandchildren through …

“I work as a receiver in the kitchen. That means that I’m responsible for receiving and managing the food supply that’s needed by our kitchen staff.   I’ve been working in the kitchen for eight years. It’s a good, straightforward job. I also work as a …