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When politics interfere with health matters the outcome will obviously be negative. In our province healthcare is government operated. Thus if you need urgent surgery you may well be waiting months even if you have the means to pay in the private sector.
Budget cuts are reason to delay much needed surgeries or to keep people on waiting lists. Cut down on autopsies is one aspect. What about Charles Lemoyne hospital in Greenfield park, Qc who refuse to take a patient in need of dialysis hospitalized in Pierre Boucher hospital (may 12th ) and finally accepted through a lot of pressure to Notre Dame hospital on mai 20th. This is what we call in french 'guerre de clochers',
Our health minister Mr Philippe Couillard calculates the waiting lists of patients needing surgery by excuding the ones that are hidden in 'closets'. Not kidding there are 'special rooms that look like closets called 'salles de débordement' specifically intended to hide patients. The hospital hallways are thus cleared of public view of patients waiting in stretchers and the 'statistics' of the waiting lists look better.
Grim view of our health services here. Overworked nurses often neglect to view patient charts....isn't it normal after a 15 hour work shift that a bracelet goes unnoticed or that medical errors happen.
Try to find a familly doctor in Quebec....They are scarce. Specialists are referred by a familly doctor so if you don't have one you don't get access to the other.
When government takes over the mess is evident. Nothing like a user payer system.
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