30% of Laurentian patients are treated up to Ontario

This region is among the latest in Quebec in terms of accessibility to care as a whole and it has not benefited from a major upgrade of its infrastructures in more than 30 years.declared Independent MP for Chomedey, Guy Ouellette.

The latter passed a motion in the company of representatives of all opposition parties to run a financial catch-up for the Laurentians region.

As president of the Coalition Santé Laurentides, Marc L’Heureux, explained on the site, now nearly 30% of Laurentian patients have to leave to receive care and services.

They had to go to Laval or Montreal, and some reached Montérégie, and many Laurentians went to Hawkesbury, Ontario.added Mr. L’Heureux, who is also vice-president of the Council of prefects and elected officials of the Laurentians region.

We want to speed up work at Saint-Jérôme Hospital and increase the number of doctors in the Laurentianslaunched for his part Dr. Simon-Pierre Landry, family physician in Mont-Tremblant and in the emergency room of Laurentian Hospital.

In 2020, Radio-Canada reported delays for the massive expansion of more than $ 500 million of Saint-Jérôme Hospital and the need to build a temporary building.

Radio-Canada recently revealed the deplorable condition of Mont-Laurier Hospital as well as the many impacts of the lack of staff for patient care.

The not optimistic CEO

In an interview at the end of April, the President and CEO of CISSS des Laurentides, Rosemonde Landry, acknowledged that many sites in Laurentians lack love and organization.

That said, he has no hope of picking up speed. The projects exceed all the budgets allocated in Quebec’s infrastructure plan, so we have steps that need to be taken to implement and execute the second phasehe clarified.

A $ 20 million project was announced in 2018 for Mont-Laurier Hospital has reached 65 millionhe gave as an example.