Hospital work is a BIG job!

There is so much work that goes on beyond the operating rooms or the wards, it’s hard to keep up with it all. Just to give you an idea, here are some of the tasks that have to happen every day.

The instrument room is constantly busy sorting, cleaning, sterilizing and rewrapping the surgical instruments. Aline Young has been volunteering with CAMTA for six years as an administrator and runs a tight (and very clean!) ship.

Layperson Amanda Pelletier and student Victoria Micek join her to spend part of their day cleaning instruments.

Each day CAMTA does several industrial size loads of laundry, cleaning scrubs, towels, sheets and surgical instrument wrappers.  (l-r) Laypersons Amanda Pelletier and Brent Dysart, and CAMTA Logistics guru Matt Moreau sort scrubs by size before sending them to the laundry room. Radio Canada’s Brent Roy chips in. 

Four-year CAMTA veteran, Dan Ducholke is nominally in charge of the IA system, but he’s kept busy all day with a myriad of other tasks. He maintains the mission’s inventory, finds patients and medical charts for team members, prints off pictures for patients, can track down anyone anywhere, and, most importantly, helps organize the annual Rock, Paper, Scissors contest. Here he discusses the current status of the tournament with Matt Moreau.

These photos just illustrate the tip of the iceberg that is a CAMTA mission!

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