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Burnaby Now – Burnaby partnership to assist newcomers in COVID screening

April 24, 2020

Cornelia Naylor for Burnaby Now writes, “a global pandemic is no time to waste the medical knowledge of internationally trained doctors who haven’t been able to get their Canadian credentials, so an innovative new program operating in Burnaby is putting them to work.

The Burnaby Division of Family Practice has partnered with MOSAIC, a Lower Mainland settlement organization, on a program that links recent immigrants and refugees who don’t speak English or don’t have access to computers or the internet to medically trained staff and volunteers who can help them navigate the city’s online COVID-19 screening portal at www.burnabycoronavirus.com.

Aptly dubbed Health Navigator, the program helps lead newcomers through a series of self-assessment questions to assess whether they need further COVID-19 testing.”

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