Analysis: Overcrowded Montreal hospital offloading COVID patients montrealgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from montrealgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital is seen in Montreal on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. People being hospitalized with COVID-19 are getting younger, according to Dr. Francois Marquis, the chief of Intensive Care at Montreal s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson April 08, 2021 - 1:00 AM
MONTREAL - Over the past two to three weeks, Dr. Francois Marquis, head of intensive care at Montreal s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, says he started noticing the average age of COVID-19 patients dropping.
People arriving at the hospital are on average, about 10 to 15 years younger than earlier patients in need of medical care after contracting COVID-19, he said in an interview Wednesday.
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Following an outcry from nursing unions, doctors and employees, a Montreal health authority says it is rethinking its plan to hire “technical assistants” to replace nurses in operating rooms at two east-end hospitals.
Because of chronic staff shortages, the Maisonneuve-Rosemont and Santa Cabrini hospitals were planning to hire “technical assistants” with no post-secondary education and only eight weeks of on-the-job training to replace nurses, the Montreal Gazette reported Friday. The new hires were intended to allow the hospitals to reopen several operating rooms closed because of a lack of staff.
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