Couillard mentions the money to help the conditions of the elderly

News 22 February, 2018

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Philippe Couillard

Camille Garnier

Thursday 22 February 2018 22:36

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The government has financial margins to improve the condition of seniors, ” said premier Philippe Couillard Thursday, in reaction to the testimony that was damning of the nurse of NURSING homes published by The Journal.

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Mr. Couillard was responding to the vice-leader of the Parti québécois, Véronique Hivon, who took advantage of the questions session of the national Assembly to call on the testimony of Kassandra Leclerc.

This sonneuse alarm was recounted in Thursday’s Newspaper how the residents of centre private Eden of Laval, of which almost all come from the public sector under an agreement with the CISSS de Laval, were often deprived of meals or bathing due to a lack of numbers.

“How much more time our seniors will be-they live in situations as intolerable […] before the prime minister decides to look at them ?” has launched the Ms. Hivon Mr. Couillard.

PUBLIC BEDS

After having assured that he was worried about the fate of seniors, Philippe Couillard has made it clear that the centre of The garden of Eden was a private establishment.

However, 138 of the 150 beds of the institution are held by residents from the public system, as wrote on Thursday The Newspaper.

“The state of public finances, which has put a lot of effort allows us to have margins of manoeuvre […] that one can now assign to improve these conditions “, said the prime minister has not put forward any figure.

He indicated that the minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette, was the issue of ” work is very promising “, without giving more details.

Questioned on the suspension of which has recently been the subject Kassandra Leclerc, who had denounced the poor quality of care provided to residents and the possibility of a survey on this subject, Mr. Couillard said : “We want to certainly encourage people to make complaints” but felt that it was necessary ” to take account of the local situation “.