Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bolduc The minister appealed to clinics

The next week, especially those of January 2009, will be extremely critical for the Sainte-Justine Hospital for Children, Montreal, recalled management, which explains its difficulties by a decrease of pediatricians to the urgency and too busy Case tried minors. Before the crisis, the health minister, Yves Bolduc, Tuesday launched an appeal to "professionalism" of doctors in the Montreal area to accept longer to open the doors of their clinics to treat peripheral and more less urgent cases, which would help to relieve the urgency of the Sainte-Justine Hospital. The head of emergencies, Dr. Michael Arsenault took advantage of a press briefing Tuesday, again to sound the alarm by calling to better organization of the healthcare network. "The rubber band is stretched to its maximum," he acknowledged. For various reasons, it will remain a score of 58 doctors who were stationed in the pediatric emergency ten years ago. At the moment, three young doctors would be on maternity leave and other sick leave. It expects two more departures in January 2009. The minister said Bolduc sympathize with the doctors at the emergency hospital of Sainte-Justine. According to him, most of the problem would be resolved if doctors in Montreal, like those engaged in the region, agreed to open their clinics at certain times during evenings and weekends to treat cases of influenza Of ear infections and other infections less urgent.

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