The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé is responsible for the death of Richard Genest, who died after waiting two hours for the ambulance due to the closure of the emergency in Senneterre, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, believes the liberal leader, Dominique Anglade.
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Shocked by this tragic story, the Liberal Party, Québec solidaire and the Parti Québécois are all asking the coroner to take up the matter.
“The journey the patient had to take is like leaving Montreal, going to Joliette to be told that the specialist we need is in Saint-Jérôme. The patient died in the elevator a few minutes from the specialist who could have saved him, ”lamented solidarity MP Émilise Lessard-Therrien.
Several questions must be clarified, the plan presented a few weeks ago by the Center for Health and Social Services of the region (CISSS-AT) provided for dispatching an additional ambulance to precisely avoid ambulance discoveries on its territory, recalls. -she.
For the parliamentary leader of the Parti Québécois, Joël Arseneau, this situation falls squarely on “bush medicine”.
“It’s health management by shutting down services, and, we’ve been saying for months, that has consequences. We can no longer talk about planned reorganization without thinking about the consequences that all this can bring ”.
The leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec, Dominique Anglade, calls for a plan for the rapid reopening of emergency services in regions such as Abitibi-Témiscamingue where the lack of manpower forces their closure.
She blames the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, and the Legault government for the closure of these services, recalling that she had invited the mayor of Senneterre to come and meet them in Quebec only a few weeks ago.
“He was entitled to eight minutes of exchanges. For what result? No result. In the end, the emergency is still closed and Mr. Genest is deceased, ”she lamented.