Health Minister Christian Dube told reporters the situation at the ER was “untenable”
Quebec’s health minister says he is bringing in an external manager to try and resolve a labour dispute that forced a major Montreal hospital to partially close its emergency room Monday night.
In response, Dube said he and Jean-Francois Fortin-Verreault, head of the city’s east-end health authority, agreed to “bring someone from outside the to come and continue to try to find solutions.” “Twelve nurses are absent from tonight’s shift, so we are really worried,” he said. “They love their job, but it’s really difficult right now. There are way too many mandatory overtime hours.”
The nurses were protesting staffing shortages and overcrowding — the hospital’s ER had an occupancy rate of 131 per cent by noon. Quebec solidaire health critic Vincent Marissal called the crisis at the ER an “active volcano,” adding that “if Dube didn’t see the smoke signals before today, then we have a hell of a problem.”
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