The body of a patient was left for more than two hours on Saturday in a hangar at Honoré-Mercier Hospital in Saint-Hyacinthe, Montérégie.
The corpse of this patient lay from noon to 2:30 pm today [samedi]. It was 35 degrees Celsius in this old garage that made entrance for paramedics and their patientsannounced Saturday on Facebook the Brotherhood of Quebec Prehospital Workers (FTPQ).
The FTPQ let this be a very frequent situation at Honoré-Mercier Hospital. If this is the first time this has happened, we probably won’t tell you about it.longing for the union.
The Montérégie-Est Integrated Health and Social Services Center (CISSS) maintains that it isan exceptional situation.
The ER doctor was busy looking after patients awaiting treatment and we had to wait for the coroner’s authorization to transfer the patient to the morgue. In addition, the room for deceased patients is already occupied. So paramedics had to leave the patient’s body in the garage under coverexplained, in a statement to CISSS. And to regret what happened.
Despite the occupancy rate, lack of labor and professionalism of our teams, this should not have happened and we will do all we can to ensure that this situation does not recur.ensuring organization.
There is information from Jérôme Bergeron
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