I'll go back to the question posed earlier by Mr. Doherty. He was asking a similar question regarding the number of members who have lacked sufficient or proper access to needed PPE in long-term care homes. The survey conducted in Manitoba included both long-term care and home care workers. That survey was conducted in early April.
The Public Health Agency of Canada released its guidance policy on infection prevention and control on April 11. It would be interesting for us to survey our members to determine more accurately if access to PPE for our members increased following the release of those guidelines, which mandated that homes should be providing workers in the sector with adequate and proper PPE. At this point in time, unfortunately I'm not able to provide an exact figure on the number of workers who continued to lack proper access to PPE, but I certainly agree that this data would be very helpful for us in determining how we can prevent a situation like this from happening again.
One issue that we do know of, which has also has been very prominent, is that even in homes where staff have been provided with a limited amount of PPE, many staff members have indicated they are not receiving proper training on how to use the PPE or they may not have been properly fitted for an N95 respirator.