The outdated heating does not provide enough

Allison Ouellet

Saturday, January 6, 2018 01:00

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GATINEAU | elderly persons in loss of autonomy of the Outaouais have had to remain in rooms where the temperature is dropped to 10 degrees Celsius due to a heating system deficient.

Rolande Gaulin often goes to visit his mother of 90 years, Sylvia Mayer, Alzheimer’s disease and hospitalized for two and a half years in the section long-term care at the hospital Papineau in Gatineau.

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Sylvia Mayer, a patient of the hospital, Papineau, Gatineau

According to her, it was always cold in the winter, but it is worse for a dozen days. Yesterday, the Outaouais region was the subject of a warning of extreme cold.

Thermometer support

Exasperated by the situation, Ms. Gaulin has brought a thermometer on Wednesday morning. At 8: 45 a.m., the mercury was 10 °C near the hospital bed.

“It must be the heat, I do not want my mother falls ill,” said the woman.

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The hospital Papineau is located in the Buckingham sector of Gatineau and located between other of the elderly in loss of autonomy. A section of the second floor has windows that let in the cold and the heating system antiquated.

Ms. Gaulin had noticed these very cold temperatures on the 29th of December last, when it had taken his mother to her room after a party that was being held at the hospital.

“When we arrived, we took the towels on a trolley was in the corridor to install them in the bottom of the windows. It doesn’t make sense to do that to old people who have worked hard all their lives. “

Plastic installed

After the complaint of Ms. Gaulin, employees of the hospital were installed Thursday of the plastic film in the windows of five rooms to be more problematic in this unit located on the 2nd floor of the hospital.

Since then, the situation has improved a little bit. The mercury was 17 degrees during the passage of the Newspaper yesterday.

The spokesperson of the integrated Centre of health and social services for the Outaouais region (CISSSO), Patricia Rheaume argues that the cold that is felt for several days is exceptional.

“We are aware that there will be upgrades to do in the next few years. “

Not new

Blankets were also distributed to patients.

“We toured more often to ensure the comfort of our patients,” said Patricia Rheaume.

According to Rolande Gaulin, he would have mentioned to the hospital that the heating problem which causes very cold temperatures in winter has been known for about four or five years.

She deplores the fact that more vulnerable people live in such conditions.

– In collaboration with TVA Gatineau