The critical situation in hospitals continues to plague the morale of already exhausted health workers, which could have serious consequences for the rest of the pandemic.
The controversy of travel in the South, people who bend the rules in hotels: “every time you hear stories like that, every time, it’s a knee in the stomach of health personnel, launches the Dr François Marquis, head of intensive care at Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont. Having worked at night for the last six days, morale is indeed low. “
“The system is really on its knees, we do not have a lot of resources,” said the president of the Association of specialists in emergency medicine of Quebec, Dr.r Gilbert Boucher.
As of Sunday, Quebec reported 1,744 cases of COVID-19 and 50 additional deaths. The number of patients in hospitals remains on the decline, however: 1,460 people were still hospitalized (14 fewer than the previous day) and 215 were in intensive care (-12).
“It’s been 10 days that there has been a small decrease in admissions, but we still have a lot of staff problems or outbreaks in hospitals”, nuance Gilbert Boucher.
And “that does not mean that we have more space in hospitals,” he adds.
In Montreal on Sunday, there were 754 new cases of COVID infection.
François Marquis, he suggests rather “stabilization” in intensive care. “I have not yet reached the point of talking about a decrease,” he warns.
Load shedding
Despite the load shedding and the goodwill of workers who disembark en masse in COVID units, intensive care and emergencies, they lack experience to adapt quickly, recognizes Dr Boucher.
“These are a lot of young people, new staff who don’t always know our processes. So care is not always so easy to give, he says. The morale is really not good and we know that there are another two or three months which will be really difficult. “
New variants of COVID-19 could also complicate matters. The strain detected in Britain has severely crippled the healthcare system due to its higher rate of contagion.
– With the QMI Agency
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