The Legault government is today starting the construction of the two private mini-hospitals promised in the election campaign, learned The newspaper. The one in Quebec will be specialized in pediatrics and the other, in Montreal, in geriatrics.
Two calls for interest – one for Est-de-Montréal and the other for the Capitale-Nationale – will be launched over the next few hours, so that within six weeks, potential operators will come forward with the aim of materialize the commitment announced by François Legault and Christian Dubé last September.
“This is a first step and a first milestone that has been crossed to make this project a reality,” confirmed in an interview the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Health, Youri Chassin, to whom the Prime Minister entrusted this file, following the elections. .
Photo d’archives, Pierre-Paul Poulin
The CAQ MP for Saint-Jérôme, Youri Chassin, has been appointed parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, with the mandate to fulfill the promise to build two private mini-hospitals. In the photo, Mr. Chassin last December.
Ultimately, the private operator selected for each project will be responsible for building and operating a mini-hospital capable of treating minor emergencies and performing certain surgeries.
Care for the patient will be free of charge since it will be covered by the sun card.
Complements
The calls for interest will each have a particularity: it will be suggested, in that for the future mini-hospital in the East of Montreal, to offer an outpatient geriatric clinic, while in the Capitale-Nationale, it will be rather a question of specialized care in pediatrics.
The objective, explains the member for Saint-Jérôme, remains that of “increasing the accessibility” of care, in complementarity with the current offer of the public network.
Mr. Chassin is convinced that the addition of this option for Quebec patients will allow, in the East of Montreal, “to unload, for example, the emergency room of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital”.
QS and the PQ oppose it
At the start of the year, Québec solidaire formally asked the government “to abandon the private mini-hospitals of Éric Duhaime”.
“The boat is leaking everywhere and François Legault wants to make more holes! We have lost enough nurses like that in the private sector, ”supported the parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, during his pre-sessional caucus.
The Parti Québécois also criticizes the CAQ for “stubbornly” wanting to put forward a model that risks, according to Joël Arseneau, cannibalizing the resources of the public network for the benefit of the private sector.
Mr. Chassin believes, on the contrary, that the addition of a private option, in complementarity with the public network, will allow useful efficiency gains for the entire network.
2 PRIVATE MINI-HOSPITALS PROMISED
One in the East-of-the-Island-of-Montreal
with a geriatric outpatient clinic
One in the National Capital
- with a pediatric outpatient clinic
- Built and Managed by the private
- Patient fees covered by RAMQ
- Objective: to improve accessibility to first class service ligne
- One of the key elements of the Health Plan of Christian Dube
- Timeline: by the end of the mandate
