Mr. François Legault,
We write to you with the hope that this message, carried by the voices of citizens and patients from all over Quebec, will echo in your heart of elected official and in your responsibility as head of state.
It is not a local demand. It is a cry from the national heart.
Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, you know, is not one hospital among others. It is a pillar of our health network. An expertise, whose benefits are largely exceeding the eastern borders of Montreal.
Unrivaled expertise
Each year, thousands of Quebecers are treated – premature babies from Estrie, patients with cancer from the Laurentides, recipients from transplants from Abitibi, among others. They find there a chance to live there, an unmatched expertise in hemato-oncology with the transplant of stem cells and cell therapy, in nephrology with renal transplant, ocular care highly specialized in ophthalmology, and facial transplants that we do not practice anywhere else. Rare humanity and excellence care.
We are these patients, these families, these survivors. We have gone through the disease thanks to the excellence of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont teams. We hoped, cried, healed within its tired walls, but carrying miracles.
Mr. Prime Minister, postponing his reconstruction, is hypothequating the health not of a district, but of a people. It is jeopardizing the future of highly specialized care on which thousands of Quebecers depend each year. It is sending the signal that the dilapidated infrastructure can wait, even when they house medical excellence.
Power
You have the power to avoid this announced disaster. And if nothing changes, it is for this abandonment that you will pass to history in the hearts of Quebecers. Not as a builder, but like the one who dropped a flagship from our health system.
We do not write to accuse, but to alert. To remind you that we are from Mauricie, Laurentides, Lanaudière, Estrie and other regions of Quebec, and that we needed, that we will still need the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital.
Recognize, Prime Minister, that it is not only the east of Montreal waiting. It’s all Quebec. And Quebec no longer has time to wait.
Respectfully,
Grateful citizens from all over Quebec,
Patients, survivors and families united by the same emergency: rebuild the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital.
Pierre Major, Saint-Hippolyte
Laurette Jacob, Rouyn-Noranda
Patrice Malo, Mont-Tremblant
Pascal Dinelle, Grenville
Marie-Andrée Démourdy and Simon Angers, Parents of Noémie, Cowansville
Sylvie Dessureault, Laval
Luc Monty, Quebec City
Hélène Peddie, NEDELEC
Pierre Trottier, Saint-Côme
Marie-Claude Lamothe, Saint-Anne-de-Sorel
Gaetan Bouillon, Vaudreuil
Lucie d’Amour, Frelighsburg
Gilles Lamy, Saint-Alexis-des-Monts
Pierre Dagenais, repentigny
Jacques Bélanger, Shawinigan
Carole Raby, McMasterville
-Maurice Vincent, Quebec City
Louise St-Laurent, Sherbrooke
Claude Asselin, Lac-Brome
Marcel Gagnon, the Saarland
Jean-Guy Jeannotte, Morin-Heights
Marie-Claude Houle-Beausoleil, Saint-Hyacinthe
Karine Perreault, Saint-Donat
Yves Chouinard, Terrebonne
Charlotte Gagnon, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
Julie-Maude Gagné, Rigaud
Carina Lewis, Saint-Hyacinthe
Michel Hammond, Gatineau
Yves Richard, Saint-Jérôme
Michel Baril, Saint-Jean-de-Matha
Yves Richard, Saint-Jérôme
Martin Ethier, Saint-Sulpice
Daniel Lauzon, La Prairie
Daniel Faucher, Laval
Bouchard Caroline, Quebec City
Diane Gince, Sherbrooke
Benoît Hervieux, Lavaltrie
Suzanne Gareau, Mascouche
Jean-Claude Desruisseaux, Gatineau
Lynda Harrison, Carleton-sur-Mer
Margot Nibbering and Yves Provost, Estérel
Diane Methot, Laval
Robert Papasidero, Bromont
Camil Pelletier, Saint-Siméon-de-Bonaventure
