Families of the Mauricie region, calling for better care in NURSING homes

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Jonathan Roberge

Monday, February 19, 2018 17:26

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Monday, February 19, 2018 17:28

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Families of the Mauricie region have launched a second offensive, on Monday, to denounce the quality of care provided to a relative living in a CHSLD.

A few weeks after having announced their intention to bring a class action against the CIUSS for care paid for, but not received, they went in the morning to the office of liberal mna Pierre-Michel Auger, to require the government to act.

“The attendants are made to say to us “or they are washed, or dressed”. When I go to see my mother, and that she is dressed, I wonder if it has been washed”, said Francine Rochette.

Each had its own history. Meals at the diaper change, the family must regularly replace the health professionals who are overwhelmed.

“We often talk about dying with dignity… but we can also live in dignity?”, launched with aplomb Andrée Ferron, whose mother resides in a CHSLD.

The mp has listened in the last thirty minutes, and promised to make a report to the minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette.

“This is not a problem of money, it is a problem of labor”, has decided the member who does not exclude to go to a CHSLD for a surprise visit to see for himself the gaps.

According to the union, a clerk on two left his job in the weeks following its formation.