After the emergency closures that marked the summer, the North Shore is forced this week to reduce its evening and night services in certain hospitals, due to the lack of medical staff.
Thus, there will be no doctor in the Port-Cartier emergency room this Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., the Integrated Health and Social Services Center (CISSS) of the North Shore indicated on Wednesday. Those who need to consult a doctor during these periods will have to drive to Sept-Îles, about sixty kilometers away.
Same scenario at the Forestville emergency room, where there will be no doctor this Wednesday and Thursday from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. To see a doctor during this period, Forestvillois will have to go either to the Escoumins hospital, about sixty kilometers away, or to Baie-Comeau, about a hundred kilometers away.
In both cases, the CISSS de la Côte-Nord emphasizes that nurses will still be present in the emergency room to treat minor health problems. They will also be able to assess the state of health of patients and guide them.
This summer, it was both the lack of doctors and nurses that caused service disruptions on the North Shore. Members of the public flying team which had been promised by the Minister of Health Christian Dubé had been deployed there to lend a hand in the region.
Further details will follow.
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