Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. As usual, I want to thank all of our witnesses today and all of our technical staff for being here and putting up with us for two or three hours a day.
Dr. Liu, this is a quote from your Globe and Mail story:
Our health-care workers are our best and last line of defence in a pandemic. For their sake and ours, we need to protect their physical and mental health.
I thank you for that quote. I couldn't agree more. There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic is creating mental health challenges for our front-line health care workers.
I think about how health care professionals need to think about their own mental and physical health. They need to think about their patients. They need to also think about their families back home, and I think this gets lost a little bit. Many I hear about are self-isolating from their families to protect not only themselves and their patients but also their families.
Dr. Liu, what measures should we implement to better protect the well-being of our health care workers during the pandemic, and what do we perhaps do afterward?