MONTREAL Health Minister Christian Dube said Monday that overflow in Quebec s emergency rooms will continue for a few more months. We re paying a bit of a price for the pandemic, said Dube. Over the past weekend, Quebecers were asked to avoid emergency rooms as much as possible at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital and Santa Cabrini Hospital both located on the eastern part of the Island of Montreal Island. Dube said the hospitals have practically reached their maximum capacity. At the end of June, it was learned that the Baie-Saint-Paul hospital s emergency hours would be limited during the summer. Dube said Quebecers will have to live with these types of situations for the next few months.
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Analysis: There s a shortage of respiratory therapists at the MUHC Officials acknowledge that staffing is down by 20 per cent and are actively recruiting to fill the positions.
Author of the article: Aaron Derfel • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • Patients in the ICU suffering from the respiratory illness are often put on ventilators that require constant attention. The respiratory therapists who treat them must don and doff personal protective equipment all the time in a high-pressure environment. Photo by Luke Hendry /Postmedia News
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Respiratory therapists operating ventilators at the McGill University Health Centre are now in short supply during the pandemic’s third wave, and those remaining have been instructed to “prioritize patients” a directive which some fear will mean spending less time monitoring some critical patients.
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Quebec’s nursing crisis has been developing for decades, but the pandemic has exposed a widening disparity among hospitals that has some administrators taking desperate measures.
Administrators of Montreal’s eastern health region, for example, are trying to sell a controversial pilot project to replace experienced OR nurses with hastily trained high school graduates. The plan was met with outrage and even tears when it was announced last week at a morning staff meeting of OR nurses at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
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