Health cuts start now
The new health bureaucracy Santé Québec is to take over management this weekend, with the mandate to cut $1.5 billion in costs. Christian Dubé has finally admitted there will be an impact on services.
Toula Drimonis asks how cutting services will save Quebec health care and comes to the only conclusion: it won’t.
Uatu 16:52 on 2024-11-29 Permalink
The 1.5 billion is basically to pay for setting up this new agency. What a load of crap. In the past we’ve gone through buying out doctors and nurses, austerity, setting up super hospitals to centralize specialized care and supposedly to attract top medical doctors and staff. None of it has improved the medical system. So I guess we’re going to have yet another meeting in my department about possible job cuts. Ugh. On top of that, Dube got himself a 30per cent raise last year and he doesn’t even have to show up for question period. It’s just so depressing….
MtlWeb 08:59 on 2024-11-30 Permalink
@Uatu That is the same exact feel in my department; the uncertainty of what’s to come next, with the ‘one seniority list’ across the province, and now this latest threat of cutting hours/positions even when we have been short of staff and trying to recruit since pre-C19, has made an already difficult environment, into one filled with gloom for our younger staff. I am lucky and can sail away into retirement mid-January but I will return a week later for 2-3 shifts/week to help with team morale & prevent some forced OT, which as we constantly hear, only occurs in the francophone hospitals (sarcasm). Have seen and lived through all those promises/plans that you fondly describe above but this post-Covid daily reality should be cause for the public to stand up and scream but this government’s Wag the Dog approach works wonders until one lands in the ER and is waiting for their ortho/abdo surgery to be done.