The provincial government believes it’s making a dent in badly needed equipment to combat COVID-19.
Premier Doug Ford says they are providing same-day deliveries to hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes, and other facilities to support all essential workers.
“We now have masks, gloves and ventilators. Over the past five days we’ve acquired more than 13 million surgical masks, including a shipment of over 7 million masks this morning.”
Ford adds they have also secured 200,095 N95 masks and 38 ventilators.
He notes the equipment has come from traditional suppliers, donations as well as other provinces.
“On Saturday, Alberta committed to send Ontario 250,000 N95 masks, 2.5 million surgical masks, 15 million surgical gloves, 87,000 safety goggles, and 50 ventilators.
Ford says shipments this past weekend across the province included 6.5 million surgical and procedural masks to over 650 organizations and providers to protect frontline workers, patients and residents.
Ford cautions while Ontario is making progress in procuring critical supplies and equipment, there is still more work to do.
