Last Thursday, Helen Guillot, a health care worker at Sudbury’s Health Sciences North, asked her team if they wanted to pitch in for the hospital’s 50/50 draw.
Guillot, who as a clinician in the respiratory care unit meets the pandemic head-on every day, had been buying 50/50 tickets for herself in the past few months, but decided to ask her colleagues in the COVID-19 unit if they’d like to join.
19 people ended up putting $20 each into the pot, never expecting to win.
When the team got the news, they couldn’t believe their luck, Guillot said.
One member of the winning team, Krista Belshaw Merrick,
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