Emergency Plan


The COVID-19 pandemic ultimately tested Guevarra’s work that he did two decades earlier. By this time, Guevarra had dedicated ten years of his time and skills with the Special Behaviour Unit Program in one of the long-term care facilities in Winnipeg. His experience of the pandemic was not what he had envisioned when he developed the Emergency Preparedness Plan two decades earlier. He found that, the existing “bureaucracy” was the major driver for decision-making on how to handle the pandemic in terms of the logistics. In other words, it was “chaotic” within the health system. It took quite awhile before the “necessary hands-on” and practical “must-do” at the “point of entry” for any existing structure/building where health services are provided, to activate the “action plan.” By then, the situation was getting out of hand as most, healthcare workers are either in isolation, or fatigue and burn-out and generally, the whole healthcare system was in a lot of “stress.”
The good news, Guevarra’s previous organization, greatly benefited from the EPP, as it provided them with guidance on how to deal with the “pandemic.” The former Executive Director of L’Arche Winnipeg, Jim Lapp, put it this way, “we used the EPP and made some modifications and it did really helped us.” Guevarra said, “that was the feather on my cap.” That made his conviction to continue to raise awareness and set goals to mitigate the risk of “global weirding.” And work collaboratively with all partners at all levels in finding innovative solutions to mitigate the real threat of climate change.

Guevarra has no doubt in his mind that the recent announcement from the Province of Manitoba about the collective effort between the Federal, Provincial and Territorial governments in addressing Emergency Management within the context of a pan-Canadian approach, will dramatically mitigate the risk and will condition the general public about the “readiness and preparedness” once these disruptions occur.
Read here about the Pan-Canadian Emergency Plan: https://t.ly/i7KvC
Read the History of the Emergency Preparedness Plan and the creation of the Morning Breeze Endowment Fund as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic:
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