Two employees of a CHSLD testify to the distress of their patients

24Jan

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Two employees of a CHSLD testify to the distress of their patients

Employees of the CHSLD de Trois-Rivières testified anonymously on Monday to the distress felt by their patients, who can no longer see their loved ones due to pandemic control measures. • Read also: Allergic to the vaccine, she cannot receive her passport • Read also: Compulsory vaccination of truckers: possible impacts in grocery stores François and Chantale (fictitious names) have agreed, on condition of anonymity, to expose the reality in care settings in fifth wave mode. What they see are seniors in psychological distress on a daily basis. “We see people crying, people who say they are bored. A resident told me "you don't manage a care environment, you manage a prison". There are those who don't have the ability to understand and wonder what they did ...

Patients returned home hours after complex surgeries

24Jan

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Patients returned home hours after complex surgeries

At Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, surgeons perform delicate procedures and send patients home the same day. • Read also: 3299 hospitalized patients and 52 new deaths in Quebec The most recent example of this approach is a morning operation performed on a man with lung cancer. Despite the complexity of the surgery, the latter will leave the hospital in the afternoon. “We have done six interventions of this kind here. It started (...) in part because of the constraints that COVID imposed on us, ”says Dr George Rakovich, surgeon at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. To justify this new way of doing things in the field of pulmonary surgery, he explains that patients are generally “better at home than in the hospital”. In addition, due to the scarcity of hospital b...

3299 hospitalized patients and 52 new deaths in Quebec

24Jan

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3299 hospitalized patients and 52 new deaths in Quebec

Quebec recorded 52 new deaths linked to COVID-19, in its report on Monday, 19 more than the day before. • Read also: What will be the strategy to convince the unvaccinated? A total of 12,851 Quebecers have lost their lives since the start of the pandemic. The province also reported 16 more hospitalizations during the 24 hours, for a total of 3,299, while 263 people are in intensive care (-10). In addition, 2807 new cases were officially diagnosed with PCR tests. Hospitalizations also increased slightly in Ontario (3,861, +64), as did the number of people in intensive care (615, +11). The country's most populous province added 37 more deaths to its toll on Monday. Similar to Quebec, access to PCR testing in Ontario remains limited a...