Pitt County Memorial Hospital stands to lose hundreds of workers in the next two weeks, but it's not because anyone is being dismissed.

It's because school is convening. As area public school students return to classes on Aug. 25, teen volunteers will have to quit their day jobs, costing the hospital 221 of its 832 volunteers.

“Really, that's a fourth of our (volunteer) population,” said Jennifer Congleton, PCMH's director of volunteer services. “They will truly be missed when they are not here.”

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