Expansion of the CHUS: the completion phase begins

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Today, the project of a mother-child Centre and the emergency of the Hospital Fleurimont entered a new phase. The implementation phase can now begin.

Andy St-André, VAT New

Friday, 26 January, 2018 21:38

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It was in 2002: the birth of the project named, at the time, woman Center-youth and family.

Claude Lemoine, then a pediatrician at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), caress the dream of enlarge the health facility. The project is in its infancy.

Two years later, the project is officially launched. Since then, the announcements of the government are followed. In 2008, then in 2013.

Réjean Hébert was at this time minister of Health and social Services under the government Marois.

“There have been changes of government at the time. This has delayed the official announcement,” said Mr. Hebert, now dean of the School of public health of the Université de Montréal (ESPUM).

Today, the project of a mother-child Centre and the emergency of the Hospital Fleurimont entered a new phase. The implementation phase can now begin.

“I can’t have you confirm the new one more than that. More than that, I would be myself in the pépine”, highlights the current minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette.

The CHUS will be much more imposing, with the construction of an enlargement of more than 26,000 square meters which will accommodate multiple units, either the child psychiatry, paediatrics, maternity and neonatology.

“The building that we present today is going to answer to real needs”, says deputy DG of health programs physical general and specialized CIUSSS of the eastern Townships CHUS, Stéphane Tremblay.

To this we must add a new emergency. The announcement represents a total investment of nearly 198 million $. The CHUS, who will be 50 years old soon, is getting a makeover. The preparatory work will be launched in the month of April and should be completed in December 2020. The new premises could accommodate the first patients in may 2021.