Alberta Emergency Management Agency

Changes due to COVID-19

Personal protective equipment

The Government of Alberta is procuring and distributing personal protective equipment (PPE) during this time of increased global demand for these products and equipment.

Currently, Alberta has adequate stocks of PPE thanks to pre-pandemic planning and ongoing efforts to secure supplies that continue to arrive. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event with an unknown duration and we cannot take our PPE supplies for granted.

Health-care organizations can contact the AHS PPE taskforce for further information and requests.

The Government of Alberta is working to provide PPE to Alberta’s critical service providers who are at the highest risk of exposure to COVID-19. Municipalities, essential service providers, emergency service providers, non-government community and social service organizations can contact the Provincial Operations Centre (POC) for PPE.

As of July 1, 2020, businesses and non-Alberta Health Services (AHS) organizations will be required to access PPE directly through suppliers. Information on PPE suppliers is available on Alberta Biz Connect to help organizations and businesses source their own PPE supply.

Starting May 25, 2020, organizations and businesses that have previously received PPE from the POC, or have submitted a request, can continue accessing PPE supplies, subject to availability and for a fee, until June 30, 2020. Requests that have been received and are in the process of being fulfilled may be subject to fees. Prices are listed in the table below. This timing will help support these groups as they transition to other PPE suppliers.

PPE pricing

For information on existing PPE requests:

• contact the POC at: ma.ppesupport@gov.ab.ca or check the status of your order online
• email AHS at: ppe@ahs.ca

Visit COVID-19 info for Albertans for further information and guidance.