Health Minister Christian Dubé has launched an investigation following disturbing revelations regarding several deaths at the Lakeshore General Hospital in Pointe-Claire.
The Montreal daily The Gazette published in the last few days a series of reports reporting deaths that occurred in “highly controversial circumstances” in the emergency room of the Montreal hospital.
Faced with this situation, Minister Dubé was forced to ask for an independent investigation to be launched.
“We must shed light on the issues experienced at the Lakeshore General Hospital,” said the minister’s office in a written statement obtained by the QMI Agency.
“Already, you should know that a previous report concluded with specific recommendations to the hospital, and the establishment has already undertaken to follow up on them. Several measures have been implemented or are in the process of being implemented at the Lakeshore, such as placing people at risk of suicide or in preventive custody on stretchers visible from the nurses’ station. The recommendations of the independent inquiry will be no exception. We will do a very close follow-up of the file, ”we added.
One of the reports from the Montreal daily recounts the death of an ex-policeman who hanged himself with a bell cord following spending 14 hours on a stretcher in the emergency room.
The facts reported also point to medical errors caused by a lack of nurses, inadequate training, insufficient supervision and dysfunctional equipment.