On behalf of the Minister of Health and Social Services, Christian Dubé, the Minister for Transport and Minister responsible for the Metropolis and the Montreal region, Chantal Rouleau, inaugurated on Monday the Jean-Jacques Gauthier Cardio-Respiratory Rehabilitation Center . “A model for Quebec,” she said.
This center, which welcomed its first patients in September, is an initiative of the North Island of Montreal Integrated University Health and Social Services Center. Its mission is to prevent the onset of symptoms and to teach people how to live better with chronic diseases, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. “With the aging of the population that we know and especially the increase in life expectancy, the burden of chronic diseases continues to grow and of course to become more complex,” said Minister Rousseau, at a press conference, with the CEO of the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Frédéric Abergel.