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christian dubé to create crisis cell for overflowing emergency rooms

tired of waiting for hours, many patients – including parents of sick children with respiratory viruses – leave without seeing a doctor,

by the canadian press

oct 27 2022
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hospital emergency rooms are overflowing like never before , particularly in terms of the number of children afflicted with respiratory viruses. the situation is so alarming that health minister christian dubé announced wednesday he will create a crisis cell charged with proposing government solutions in the very short term.

many hospitals currently receive far more patients than capacity allows. tired of waiting for hours and hours, many patients — including parents of sick children — leave the hospital without seeing a doctor, a situation dubé calls “unacceptable.”
“it’s not acceptable that someone with a child waits 16 to 18 hours in an emergency room and goes home empty-handed,” he said wednesday in a news conference.
dubé asked his deputy minister, dominique savoie, to put together a crisis cell into which will include the presidents of montreal’s ciusss health authorities, among others.

parallel to that, he asked provincial public health director dr. luc boileau to propose in the coming days an action plan consisting of measures to reduce the crisis and diminish the surplus attendance expected in emergency rooms over the coming months.

asked whether he was thinking of imposing masks or other health measures to relieve the pressure on emergency rooms, dubé responded he’s “not excluding anything.” he was flanked by the minister of social services, lionel carmant, and the minister for the elderly, sonia bélanger.

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“it’s going to be difficult” in the health system in the coming months, he acknowledged. dubé said he’s searching for better practices to institute in the health system in order to make room on the front lines, notably in the context of a flagrant lack of staff, including nurses.
the problem is especially dire in the greater montreal region. for weeks, emergency rooms including ste-justine hospital’s have been overflowing with children suffering from respiratory viruses. at ste-justine, the crisis has reached unprecedented levels.
and the phenomenon isn’t going to “fade away” in the coming months, dubé warned, because with the spike in flu cases during the holiday period, the presence of respiratory viruses is always higher.
at this time of year, “all that gets worse,” bélanger said. “there is always greater pressure on the health system in the fall and winter. and this year, it arrived early.”
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