New CHUM: 289 $ per month to have tv at the hospital

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Carl Vaillancourt

Tuesday, 9 January 2018 01:00

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Patients relocated to the new Centre hospitalier de l’université de Montréal must now pay almost $ 300 per month to have tv in their room, nearly triple the invoice they received at Notre-Dame Hospital.

Last November 26, 110 patients hospitalized at the Hospital of Notre-Dame have been transferred into the new facility of the Centre hospitalier de l’université de Montréal (CHUM).

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Several have been very surprised by receiving their invoice of the company’s Mosino in the amount of 289,74 $ to rent a tv for a month while he was 108,02 $ per month to Our Lady, all taxes included.

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The daughter of Pierrette Falcon, Nancy Laporte, holds his credit card account on which charges of 289,74 $ are charged on a monthly basis to have a tv and 50 channels in the bedroom of his mother at the Centre hospitalier de l’université de Montréal (CHUM).

“It costs me less for two months with all the services in me [internet including]. It is exorbitant. A chance that members of his family help us to pay the bill, ” said Nancy Laporte, whose mother, Pierrette Falcon is part of the transferred patients at the CHUM.

Patients who want to have the services of tv and internet during their stay will have to pay 393 $ per month. Currently, the internet is not even available yet to the patients of the CHUM.

“I feel bad to know that they pay as much for as I listen to the television,” said Pierrette Falcon, 55 years,stressing that there was not a lot of other hobbies since she is bed-ridden.

According to Ms. Falcon, in addition to the high price, there are several technical problems that make the tv didn’t work well.

The new BOYFRIEND had already been criticized in may for its parking rates that are up to 24 $ per day.

“Three hundred dollars per month to watch tv, it doesn’t look great,” said Paul Brunet, president of the Council of the protection of the sick. Even if the service does not have to be free, he believes that it must remain accessible for patients.

Better for the CHUM

One of the companies that participated in the tender of the CHUM in may, Hôpitel, claims to have offered better price for the patients, but that the commission they would have paid at the CHUM was lower.

The spokesperson of the hospital, Lucie Dufresne, for his part, recalled that the company’s Mosino was the best option among the bidders.

“After evaluation, the proposal by Mosino was that, among all the proposals received, which met the needs better technical, financial and organizational CHUM in the context of its new hospital. “

The vice-president of the company’s Mosino, Zeeshan Butt, ensures that his company wanted to offer the best service, but he did not want to talk about the rates imposed by it.

More expensive than elsewhere for a tv

• CHUM is$289
• Jewish general hospital of Montreal, between 143,87 $ 197,15 $
• Institute of cardiology, 188,56 $
• Hospital St. Mary, between 162,06 $ 187,92 $
• Santa Cabrini hospital, between 104,09 $ 187,92 $
• Hospital Rosemont, between 58,58 $ 70,08 $

–With Hugo Duchaine