The grumbling of nurses in Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec continues. About 300 of them shouted their displeasure in front of the Trois-Rivières Hospital on Sunday noon.
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For the hundreds of healthcare professionals from the region gathered in Trois-Rivières for a major demonstration, there is no doubt that health care and services to the population will be affected by the recent measures announced by the CIUSSS MCQ.
It is also with vigor that they shouted their disagreement in front of the Regional Affiliated University Hospital Center on Sunday.
“Our working conditions have been declining for three years, it has to stop,” said a nurse questioned by our journalist Molly Béland during the demonstration.
The new working conditions are not for everyone. Many nurses will have to work one weekend out of three and possibly in several departments due to a merger.
“It’s far from being just one weekend out of three, expertise is important for the safety of users,” explains another nurse to our journalist.
For now, only the MRC of Drummondville is affected by these new measures, but it is only a matter of time before the rest of the region is too, but negotiations are continuing with the management of the CIUSSS. .
“We would merge certain activity centers such as the direction of school health with the CHSLDs of Drummondville,” says Patricia Maillot, president Mauricie–Centre-du-Québec FIQ. “Otherwise we offer an option B which is not provided for in the collective agreement at all, but we would come to make compound positions.”
