QUEBEC POLITICIANS ARE KILLING PATIENTS

The head of a nurse's union at the MUHC said conditions at the Glen super hospital are dire and will continue to deteriorate unless governmental budget cuts to healthcare are reversed.

At a press conference held jointly by a union representing nurses and cardiorespiratory therapists and political party Coalition Avenir Quebec, union president Denyse Joseph said patients are unable to get proper care at the superhospital.

She said there are currently 200 vacant healthcare positions, with no plans to fill them, and a lack of staffing means equipment is being left unused.

Joseph blamed the conditions on the $120 million slashed from the MUHC budget since 2012 and said she plans to present Health Minister Gaetan Barrette with a petition containing 14,000 signatures calling on them to reverse the cuts.

"We're going to have patients, they're going to be put in double rooms or hallways of a hospital," she said. "It's putting patients at risk. In a hallway, you have nothing. In an emergency, you're lucky if you have somebody pass by you."

While patient care has suffered, Joseph said the hospital's nurses are working in untenable conditions.

"I don't have time to do the best care for these patients," she said. "This affects the mental (health) and when they get home, they cry. They don't want to come to work anymore because they're overwhelmed. There's a major increase in long term sick leave at the MUHC for personnel and most of them are related to mental healthcare."

It's a problem that will only get worse as Quebec's healthcare system becomes further stressed by an aging population," said Joseph.

"You have more diagnosis, so you're more sick. Of course, when you come to the hospital, you're more sick so you need more care. At the same time, we're reducing the beds. There's less beds in the hospital and there's no beds in the community. We have to find a way so the patients that need acute care are seen in the MUHC."

CAQ MNA Nathalie Roy said that while the cuts to healthcare were originally introduced by the Parti Quebecois, the Liberals have done nothing to stop them. She acknowledged that while the MUHC serves all Quebecers, it is largely used by Anglophones. She said her party wants to show that it values Anglos ahead of next year's provincial elections.

Montreal – CTV News


What politicians and the media never say is that 


PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE -

BUT CONSERVATIVES, THE FILTHY RICH, WILL PROTEST ABOUT HOW THEIR MILLIONS ARE BEING DRAINED TO PROVIDE FOR "UNFIT" PEOPLE WHO REALLY SHOULD SHUT UP AND DIE. 

THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL IN MONTREAL IS OVERWHELMED WITH REQUESTS FOR CANCER CARE. THEY ARE DROWNING FOR LACK OF RESOURCES. THE QUEBEC GOVERNMENT KEEPS CUTTING THEIR BUDGET SO THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO HIRE ENOUGH QUALIFIED DOCTORS OR PURCHASE ALL THE ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT THEY NEED TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR VITAL HEALTH CARE. 

THE DOCTORS ARE EXHAUSTED, EVEN GOING WITHOUT MEALS THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO HELP THE PATIENTS. 

THERE DOES APPEAR TO BE A "RACIST" ELEMENT IN THIS. IT APPEARS THAT BEING "ANGLO" OR JEWISH IS A DISADVANTAGE IN QUEBEC. BUT THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL SERVES AND EMPLOYS PEOPLE OF ALL RELIGIONS, RACES, NATIONALITIES AND LANGUAGES. EVEN IF YOU SPEAK URDU OR MANDARIN, THEY WILL PUT OUT A CALL TO FIND ANYONE IN THE HOSPITAL WHO CAN TRANSLATE FOR YOU. 

AND, AS IT IS IN THE U.S.A., MONEY IS WORSHIPED BY THE POLITICIANS AND THEIR SPONSORS. HUMAN LIVES ARE TREATED AS STATISTICS.