At CHSLD Pie-XII in Rouyn-Noranda, patients have not had the right to toothbrush for six months, CSN denounced a few days ago, police interrupted the press conference.
The last time they had their nails trimmed or their beards shaved was in May. The second bath was postponed for weeks. At this point… what about dressing patients? It's pajama day, day after day.
We have left these people's dignity the same as blouses: in the back of the closet.
When the employees, who had seen incompetence for a long time, wanted to alert the population, due to the lack of internal attention, the management of the establishment called the police for an “illegal assembly”.
After all, it should not be known.
We are in Quebec. In 2024.
A massacre of austerity
In less than 10 years, CISSS de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue went from $1M to $145M in independent labor. True luck.
The CAQ is demanding that the growing deficit be covered, so the temporary cuts have become permanent. Services are further disrupted.
In this CHSLD, 4,000 hours of direct services per month to customers are eliminated. Not to mention all the other cuts that will affect all health services in the area.
This is happening in Abitibi-Temiscamingue as well as on the north coast and the deterioration of services is increasing everywhere, in the Gaspé, in the Laurentians, in Mauritius…
You'd be crazy to believe that the health system can absorb a $1 billion deficit without cutting services and the population realizing it, even though the staff is still clearly condemned.
The grim picture of what is happening in Rouen-Noranda is probably only the tip of the iceberg.
Our patients deserve better.
Who do we want to protect by forcing employees into grave silence?
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