A traumatic brain injury 29-year-old forced to live in a CHSLD

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Saturday, 10 march, 2018 19:49

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A man of 29 years of Montérégie has to live in a CHSLD, surrounded by elderly, because it is the only place that is willing to accept it in spite of his heavy handicap.

But his mother denies that he spends the rest of his life in this establishment.

Benjamin Monière lives in a centre of long-term care, Saint-Constant since he was 21 years old.

In 2007, he was struck by a car as he stepped off a bus. He has suffered a severe head injury and has spent more than six in the coma.

When asked what he finds the hardest part of his condition, he replied : “I wake up every morning with a body that is half there”.

To make matters worse, his sister Angélique has also been hit by a car as she left a school bus in 2000.

His mother is concerned that she finds it also a day in a nursing home because of her head trauma.

Residence project

For the past four years, with many volunteers, Sylvie Boyer is struggling to build a residence of 32 housing for youth in the Western Montérégie region.

People with a physical disability aged 18 to 55 would have access to the places that they have been or not a head injury, according to Ms. Boyer.

The organization Winds of hope the St. Lawrence river has even in the hand a resolution of the municipal council of Saint-Rémi, who granted him a plot of land, free of charge.

The construction of the residence would cost $ 10 million, a project funded by donors.

After the fact, the ministry of Health should invest an annual amount for the care and the wages of fifty servants, and educators.

“We talk about$ 2.3 million approximately annually. When it comes down to an average cost of 66 000 dollars per person. Here in a CHSLD, one speaks of 105 000 dollars per year,” illustrious Madame Boyer.

The mother of the family has sent numerous letters to ministers Gaétan Barrette, and Lucie Charlebois, but the responses are slow.

“It is sure that always there is a fiscal challenge, I will not hide it. But beyond the fiscal challenge, there are needs and it is necessary to see how we can do to respond to these requests-there,” replied Lucie Charlebois, the minister responsible for the public Health point press.