Guysborough councillors have approved a pair of changes at long-term care homes in the municipality to fight the spread of COVID-19.
They voted in favour of the changes at December’s regular municipal council meeting Wednesday afternoon.
After the meeting, Vernon Pitts, Guysborough’s warden, said staff members and visitors at the Milford Haven Home for Special Care in Guysborough and Seaside Manor in Canso will be tested for COVID-19 biweekly.
“Going forward, I would expect that’ll be ongoing,” he said. “I don’t know if it’ll be done this week or the next week, but as soon as they can get it done, that’s when they’ll start it, and they’ll just roll the program through and then just continue on.”
Pitts said that’s something they haven’t done before.
He said staff members at both facilities will wear scrubs again, which they started when the pandemic hit in March.
“Once restrictions were eased up a bit, they were allowed to go back to their regular work clothes,” he said. “Now that COVID, as we see province-wide, is starting to rear its head, we’re not taking any chances- we want to stay out ahead of this.”
Pitts said employees come to work in their regular uniform and change into scrubs when they arrive.
He said the first sets of scrubs have worn out, so they’ve ordered new ones.
