Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced $32 million in funding for long run care in Saskatchewan.
He made the annoucement throughout a cease at St. Ann’s Senior Residents’ Village in Saskatoon on Wednesday.
The cash will fund COVID-19 measures akin to safer eating practices, elevated cleansing and housekeeping and enhanced screening protocols for workers, Trudeau mentioned.
"Through the previous years, I've had the chance to speak with many long run care employees to thank them and listen to their tales about their issues," Trudeau mentioned.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with seniors in Saskatoon on Could 25, 2022. (Pat McKay/CTV Information)
The cash will come from the federal Secure Lengthy-term Care Fund.
Trudeau was joined by Saskatchewan Seniors Minister Everett Hindley.
"We admire the federal authorities's help right now for the work Saskatchewan has carried out to enhance an infection prevention and management measures and long run take care of the previous couple of years," Hindley mentioned.
He mentioned the cash will go to offset prices incurred throughout the pandemic because the province labored to restrict the unfold of COVID-19 in long run care houses.
A bunch of roughly two dozen protesters stood outdoors the care house, jeering the Prime Minister as he left.
A bunch of protestors are seen outdoors a Saskatoon care house Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited on Could 25, 2022. (Pat McKay/CTV Information)
Wednesday afternoon, Trudeau met agriculture college students from the College of Saskatchewan.
He then toured the college's Vaccine and Infectious Illness Group, which is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
"On behalf of 38 million Canadians ... thanks for all the pieces you do," Trudeau mentioned outdoors the power.
"When the pandemic hit and everybody needed to hunker down, you sprung into motion. You place apart your analysis tasks and your lengthy standing duties and targeted on COVID-19 in extraordinary methods, the primary place to sequence, isolate COVID-19 right here in Canada, which allowed us to spring into motion," Trudeau mentioned.
His final cease of the day is scheduled at a daycare, the place he's to fulfill with households and talk about little one care and early studying.
Trudeau was in British Columbia on Monday to attend a memorial ceremony on the former residential faculty in Kamloops, B.C., the place 215 suspected graves have been detected one 12 months in the past.
--With Canadian Press information.
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