The situation is critical in the Drummondville emergency room. On the indexsante.ca website, the Sainte-Croix hospital emergency room shows a 168% stretcher occupancy rate. It was 184% on Friday morning.
The regional president of the Quebec Federation of Nurses, Patricia Maillot, indicates that there is a shortage of heart rate monitors and that shifts for next weekend are not assigned.
The CIUSSS MCQ ensures that workers have all the equipment they need and that the necessary personnel are present on New Years and New Year’s Eve.
The Hôtel-Dieu d’Arthabaska has to contend with an occupancy rate of 125%. In Mauricie, the Regional Hospital Center of Trois-Rivières and the Centre-de-la-Mauricie Hospital have occupancy rates of 147% and 105% respectively.
Half of the reasons for consultations are related to non-urgent health problems such as flu-like symptoms, urinary tract infections or other minor infections.
