front line health: The gathering brought together six community health centres, as well as the Bruyère Family Medicine Centre, for seminars and question and answer sessions, according to CBC. Nurse practitioner Paula Day says front line health workers have been treating refugees for a wide list of illnesses and conditions. "We've held the conversations with all the different players. 'What are you doing, and what are you doing, and how can we insure that we're all doing it well together '" More than 1,000 refugees arrived so far The workers have been treating the 1,024 Syrian refugees who have arrived in Ottawa as of Feb. 11. Jack McCarthy, the executive director of the Somerset West Community Health Centre, said since the refugees don't have access to a family doctor, front-line workers do more than administer health care. "It very disorienting for the Syrian refugees, trying to understand the Canadian health system, so we're trying to make it as easy as possible." To help share those best practices, the Centretown Community Health Centre organized a gathering Thursday of more than 100 front-line health workers in Ottawa. In many cases, treatment has been delivered through impromptu triage units setup in hotels where many of the refugees are being temporarily housed. Day says front-line health workers have been treating refugees for a wide list of illnesses and conditions, including colds, flu-like symptoms, ear aches and fevers. Refugees can be covered for up to one year under the Interim Federal Health Program, but communicating what is covered and what isn't often falls to the nurses and health-care workers meeting with the new arrivals, says nurse practitioner Paula Day.
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