New York City needs 45,000 more health care workers, mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday. Most of them need to go to new, non-traditional hospitals like the Javits Center.
Some of the first New York City-based volunteers from the contingent of medical professionals who have pledged to help in the fight against coronavirus have registered for shifts, according to the city’s department of health. But tens of thousands more are needed to handle the surge of patients in the coming weeks and months, the mayor said.
To get through April and into May, New York City “will need an additional 45,000 clinical staff,” de Blasio said Friday. Roughly 7,500 will be assigned to traditional hospital buildings and the other 37,500 will be staffing all the new, non-traditional hospitals that are being created, such as the Javits Center, he said.
“We need to get them those reinforcements and we need to do it quickly,” de Blasio said, noting that he’s utilizing volunteers from the city and the state, contracting medical personnel and has asked FEMA for 1,000 nurses, 150 doctors and 300 respiratory specialists by Sunday. Typically, the primary role of NYC MRC’s volunteers is to distribute antibiotics or vaccines to New Yorkers during a health emergency, the organization’s website said. But they can also be utilized for medical surge capacity “during a pandemic influenza outbreak.”
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