Health: Health professionals reach an agreement with Quebec – TVA Abitibi-Temiscamingue
Alexandre Cabana | August 2, 2024
APTS-affiliated reinforcements will arrive this fall.
These are laboratory technicians, medical professionals and social workers in youth centres who will come to lend a hand to the regions of Quebec, including ours.
A flat rate of $100 per day was even set up to encourage people from the private sector to join the public sector and the flying team.
But the APTS national representative in the region, Carl Verreault, notes a lack of structuring measures and sees these flying teams as a short-term solution.
But if the independent workforce and the famous private agencies are called upon to disappear from the public health network in the coming years, Carl Verreault believes that it will take more, in the future, to truly repatriate all these people into the public system.
And as for the flying nurses, they landed this month in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
For the moment, we are talking about 5 nurses for the region and that is too few, according to Jean-Sébastien Blais, the president of the FIQ-SISSAT.
For him, the expectations were much higher.
There is also the worrying fact that these are people who arrive in the region temporarily, between one and three months, depending on the cases.
