There will be no improvement in the short term in emergencies, recognizes Minister Christian Dubé, who is launching yet another appeal for help to retired nurses.
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“I think that over the next few weeks, it will continue to be difficult,” he admitted Thursday, in a press scrum at the National Assembly.
The Minister of Health assures us that the Info-Santé telephone line works very well. The problem is the glaring lack of personnel to respond to the thousands of calls received per day.
“If there are nurses who want to come and help us in the coming weeks, these are very good hours, pleaded Christian Dubé. It could take up to 5,000 nurses to answer the phone.
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The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé
The measures put in place by the government’s crisis unit are sufficient, but they must now be applied, he insists. “We reduced the difficulties we had in the emergency room, but it is far from being resolved”. Christian Dubé pointed out that the influenza virus continues to progress in particular.
The Minister of Health has also been the subject of crossfire from opposition parties, during the very first parliamentary contest in the National Assembly since the elections.