MONTREAL — Quebec’s health minister says he is bringing in an external manager to try and resolve a labour dispute that forced a major Montreal hospital to…
A nurse-led protest over working conditions led officials to warn residents to stay away from the ER between 11 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m. the next day. On Tuesday, Health Minister Christian Dube told reporters the situation at the ER was “untenable,” adding, “many people have described the work environment as toxic.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“The person in question is not responsible for the hospital being at overcapacity,” Fortin-Verreault said about the unit chief who had become the target of the nurses’ scorn. “It is obvious that the relationship with the staff is not there, so we are going to move the person, and they will have different functions.
The forced overtime and ER overcrowding is not only a problem in Montreal’s east end. Radio-Canada reported that at the Jonquiere hospital in Quebec’s Saguenay region, about 200 kilometres north of Quebec City, ER nurses staged a 30-minute sit-in Tuesday morning.Article content After five years of the Coalition Avenir Quebec, “not only has the emergency situation not improved, but our health system is cracking everywhere,” health critic Andre Fortin said in a statement Tuesday. “It is a dismal failure of the minister and a crisis of leadership, as he refuses to get directly involved when problems arise.”
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