The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, is giving himself “between two and three years” to reduce the waiting lists associated with the operations.
This he clarified, Wednesday, in studying his department’s credits. Currently, at least 160,000 Quebecers are waiting for an operation.
Of this number, 140,000 have been waiting for their operation in less than 12 months, but 20,000 have endured more than a year, according to Mr. Dubé, in response to Liberal critic Monsef Derraji.
The Minister indicated that the priority is to reduce the number of operations that people have been waiting for more than a year and to melt the waiting list of 20,000 to 3,000 names by April 2023, up to pre-pandemic level.
Second, he gave of himself between two and three years to bring the list from 140,000 names to the pre-pandemic level of 100,000.
” The good news is we have budgets to do this. When we have the necessary personnel, we can probably speed up even more. “
Nearly 9,000 employees are still out of the health network because of COVID-19. And it will also need to train more staff, the minister said.
The priority is for these personnel to enter the public network. That’s why we said we wanted to be an employer of choice, which isn’t the case right now.
You have to have winning conditions for people to come back […] on the public networkHe added.
Lack of nurses
That is, the Ministry of Health knows that it will not only fill the shortage of nurses training, graduation and immigration.
We must take other measures, such as telemedicine, teleconsultations, all technologies that will enable us to better use professionals.explained Assistant Deputy Minister for Workforce Management, Josée Doyon.
He said there is currently a shortage of at least 5,340 nurses. About 28,000 need to be hired within five years, he said.
QS denounced failure of CAQ
Earlier, Québec solidaire (QS) denounced the sad disappointment in health.
The parliamentary leader of QSGabriel Nadeau-Dubois, recalled during the interrogation the many broken promises of Premier François Legault.
He promised a 90 -minute wait in the emergency room, failure. He promised one doctor per person, failure. He promised to save a billion a year in doctors ’salaries, failure. He promised to end mandatory overtime, failed. He promised to implement nurse-patient ratios, failedhe listed.
The spokesman for QS in health, Vincent Marissal, went on to accuse the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister of failing to fulfill their responsibilities.
The fact is that this government does not deliver. They didn’t deliver, and it was someone else’s fault or the fault of the pandemiche hammer at a press briefing in the National Assembly.
Mr. Marissal recalled the words Mr. Legault uttered on Tuesday, according to which the average 17 hours of waiting on a stretcher in the emergency room was after all. understood.
Does the Prime Minister tell families with loved ones who are on the stretcher in the emergency room, sometimes two, three, four, five days, that they should understand? he asked.
I just don’t understand it, but I don’t accept it. […] It was a failure and a sad failure of CAQthat happens to us with […] another slogan […] at the end of the session to hide these failures.
On March 29, the Legault government unveiled a plan to refoundation of the health system, without it being accompanied by a specific timetable.
Source: Radio-Canada
