With each arrival of a new Minister of Health, we learn of his or her intention to launch new consultations on long-term care or home care.
Mme In 2013, Blais launched a new consultation on the care of housed persons. Mr. Barrette launched his symposium on CHSLDs in 2016. Mr. Michel Clair, in 2000. Former Minister of Health Mr. Côté had also launched his project to place the patient at the center of decisions in the health network by 1990. And so on.
Yet the Ministry of Health, with its approximately 1,800 employees and professionals, is replete with reports of serious consultations and studies on these important subjects, which have been covered for at least twenty years.
Why, how can we not enrich ourselves with what already exists? What is this reflex, political perhaps, of wanting to reinvent the wheel?
For Christmas, can we implore our ministers not to engage in another consultation or another forum. Can we ask them, based on the lessons already available, to work to provide access to care when it is needed and to treat our people with dignity?
It would be one of the most beautiful commitments, one of the most beautiful gifts to offer to all of us for Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Mrs. Minister!
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