Several concerned citizens gathered in front of the Lachine hospital on Friday to demand the reopening of the emergency room, which had been closed at night and in the evening for nearly a month.
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The death of Richard Genest, attributed to the closure of the emergency room at Senneterre hospital, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, has rekindled the fears of many Lachinois.
Parti Québécois health spokesperson Joël Arseneau attended the rally to demand the reopening of all emergencies that have been closed in the province.
He also deplores that a hospital in the metropolis is forced to close its emergency.
“An emergency, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it seems to me that in the city of Montreal, in the west of Montreal, that we can no longer offer that, there is something aberrant, surrealist, ”denounces Mr. Arseneau.
If the MUHC announced last week that the Lachine hospital emergency room will reopen to ambulatory patients on January 10, the establishment’s Council of Physicians finds that this is insufficient.
“They are talking about a reopening for January 10, but it’s fair for patients who are able to walk. They are not really very sick people. We’re not in the clinic. We are an emergency, ”says Dr. Paul Saba, president of the Lachine Hospital Council of Physicians.
– Based on information from Catherine Bouchard