Providing relief for local health-care workers

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Medical students Daniel Lee, Orly Bogler (appearing via video conference), Jordynn Klein and Tingting Yan organized volunteers from their and other programs to help front-line health-care workers during the COVID-19 crisis

“These health-care workers are trying to keep us safe and treat our community. The only way they can keep doing that is by being supported by all of us with the little things – like groceries, pet care – so they can focus.”

Nelson Saddle, Medical student

Providing relief for local health-care workers

Knowing the toll the pandemic is taking on the health-care system, more than 240 student volunteers from the University of Toronto’s Schools of Medicine and Nursing are offering personal support services to front-line workers.

These students are babysitting, picking up groceries and carrying out other tasks to help health-care workers and hospital staff manage increased workloads.

The students have expanded the program to more than a dozen medical students at other Canadian universities who are working to launch their own volunteer networks to help even more health-care workers across the province.

To learn more, visit the University of Toronto.