The Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital is not the only one that holds together with spit. La Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval, it holds with spit of the interior.
I immediately declare my conflict of interest. A member of my family works there. But no need for privileged information to worry about what’s going on. The newspapers are full of examples. Emergency to the point of rupture, patients left to themselves, nurses of experienced experience. The Cité-de-la-Santé is another beautiful case of management in the short week.
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Like HMR, Cité-de-la-Santé was promised a vast repair in 2018. However eight years later, the file is still “under study”, according to the PQI. The situation is serious enough for the Cisss de Laval to talk about it last week to justify the chaos that reigned in the emergency during the night of April 28 to 29.
We often ask if it will take a patient who dies so that things change. It has already happened in Cité-de-la-Santé, on the night of February 11 to 12.
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And as if it was not enough, in Laval as elsewhere, we cut! We would have at least believed that the choices, as difficult as they are, would be consistent. But no. In Laval, we had the brilliant idea of removing the position of two experienced nurses who come to the rescue of overwhelmed teams, a valve essential to the proper functioning of the hospital.
But in the bureaucratic world of health, a position is a position. Staff are like concrete for renovations, it accumulates in columns of figures.
The expertise threatened by obsolete places, the sacrificed experience, it seems that it is secondary, provided that the figures are balanced.
And then we will be told that the reforms are in the right direction …
