‘Structural change’ needed in health system, Quebec health minister says | 24CA News

With the National Assembly again in session, the well being minister desires to speak about issues apart from the emergency room disaster in Quebec.

“Yes, it’s fun to put out fires and deal with emergencies, but I’m not here for that,” stated Christian Dubé throughout his first press scrum of the yr.

“I’m here to have structuring effects that will change things […] and in the coming weeks, we will leave the urgent to work on the important,” he stated.

Since final fall, overflows in emergency rooms have been so frequent that the minister arrange a disaster unit within the hope of getting fast outcomes.

Some measures put in place by the minister embrace widening the scope of the Info-Santé 811 line and specialised nurse practitioner clinics.

For now, hospital mattress occupancy charges stay on common above 125 per cent. More than a fifth of emergency rooms exceed 150 per cent. The common size of keep fluctuates between 18 and 20 hours on a stretcher and over 5 hours within the ready room

But Dubé stated some indicators within the well being system are on the right track. 

“It is no longer so much new measures that we need, but to implement those that have been proposed to us,” stated Dubé.

Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital struggling

Compulsory additional time stays frequent within the emergency division of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, one of many largest in Quebec.

Radio-Canada sources who weren’t approved to talk publicly confirmed greater than 400 obligatory additional time hours have been labored final weekend and that the overwhelming majority of nurses have been known as upon to work. An extended-time ER physician stated it was “a situation never seen.”

Asked in regards to the japanese Montreal hospital, Dubé stated the institution is amongst “those who have the most difficulty implementing measures.”

He says he has questioned the CEO of the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Jean-François Fortin Verreault, on this topic.

“Why are there about 30 hospitals that have managed to implement local schedule management? I asked Mr. Fortin [for explanations], I will ask the unions,” he stated.

Several Radio-Canada sources stated the recurrent setbacks within the emergency room of the hospital create important tensions with administration, but additionally between overworked and burnt out workers members.

Radio-Canada just lately revealed that the Quebec authorities has closed the door on a pilot venture aimed toward lowering obligatory additional time on the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.