At a time when Quebec has its eyes riveted on the coroner’s inquest which is trying to shed light on the events that took place at the CHSLD Herron in 2020, a nurse believes that the investigation “did not necessarily happen without the best way”.
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“They were trying to make me say that my CIUSSS had taken time before going there,” explained Marie-Ève Rompré, nurse manager of the emergency room at the Ste-Mary’s Hospital Center, in an interview Friday on the airwaves of QUB radio. .
According to her, it was difficult for the CIUSSS to measure the extent of the problem in a simple email, when the system was severely tested by the first wave of COVID-19 which was running in a large number of CHSLDs.
It also recalls that private establishments are usually autonomous. “It is not in the standards of governance [pour les CIUSSS d’aller dans les CHSLD privés]“, she said in particular.
It should also be noted that there were numerous communication problems, even after the arrival of the CIUSSS teams in the establishment.
“When we got there, just a few days later, management wouldn’t let us have access to patient files or lists. We didn’t even know who was dead, who was alive and who was being transferred to the hospital,” explained the nurse.
Invited to testify as part of the coroner’s inquest, Marie-Ève Rompré had to recall these painful memories.
She explains that the people who intervened at the CHSLD Herron live with traumas so that some of them have left the health sector.
Although she is still in the middle, Ms. Rompré has also suffered trauma during her time in the infamous establishment.
“When I was sent to another private CHSLD, I had physical symptoms for fear of seeing what I’m going to find there and yet it was day and night. […] Going there, I say to myself “OK, I really still have a trauma”. I had heart palpitations, I felt sick to my stomach, I didn’t want to go,” she said.