Political parties must commit to establishing ratios for health professionals, claims the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ).
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The adoption of the new law is at the center of the FIQ’s demands. It is time to act to allow employees to breathe, indicated the president of the FIQ, Julie Bouchard.
“The ratios are a structuring measure that will allow us to catch our breath,” she said in a press release. Care professional/patient ratios are a mandatory standard applicable everywhere, in order to have complete and competent care teams at all times. This law would provide the impetus needed to attract and retain healthcare professionals in the public healthcare network.”
“Quebec deserves a courageous government that will have the will to put such a law in place so that we finally have stimulating working conditions,” she added. A true work-family-personal life balance will bring back [les employés] who left for the private sector in the public fold. The public network badly needs this impetus.”
Moreover, the FIQ asks the next government to recognize systemic racism and to act against climate change for the good of the population.
The FIQ and the FIQP have close to 76,000 members who are nurses, nursing assistants, respiratory therapists and clinical perfusionists working in health establishments across Quebec.