Fire at Rouyn-Noranda hospital | Full recovery will take several months

Hardly affected by a fire that required its complete evacuation. Therefore, the Rouyn-Noranda hospital will have to be the subject of work for “several months”. Meanwhile. Therefore. Nevertheless, patients will continue to be transferred to other establishments in the region, where pressure is already felt, and even further.

Ten days after the claim. For example, the authorities made the press briefing on the situation on Friday.

The blaze. Moreover. whose exact cause is always the subject of an investigation, but which would be of accidental origin, left major damage to fire rouyn-noranda hospital | full new 2^e floor of the building, where he declared himself.

The soot. smoke. water used to turn off the fire had significant impacts on floors 1, 3 and 4 while they are more moderate on the upper floors.

“This is really a major disaster,” said the CEG of the CISSS of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Caroline Roy.

However. some services were able to resume. in particular the emergency, the appointments with a specialist doctor as well as the medical-surgery unit, although the latter operates with reduced capacity.

To monitor the state of services at the Rouyn-Noranda hospital day by day. it is possible to consult the CISSS website of Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

Consult the CISSS website of Abitibi-Témiscamingue

The establishment works in concert with. experts to assess the state of affected medical equipment. fire rouyn-noranda hospital | full new determine if they can fire rouyn-noranda hospital | full be cleaned or if they must be replaced.

“Our very firm desire is to take over the services such as Rouyn-Noranda hospital. ” insisted the vice-president of health and social health and social services coordination in Health Quebec, Maryse Poupart.

But it is “really too early” to give a more detailed schedule, explained Caroline Roy. “I name several months. I am not able to be more precise. but as soon as we have more information, we will transmit it to the population”.

Meanwhile, patients will always have to be transferred elsewhere.

Friday. some 45 patients were thus in hospital facilities in the region. the Hospitals of Amos and Val-d’Or and the Multi-Services of Health and Social Services of the Saar, all located between 80 to fire rouyn-noranda hospital | full new 110 kilometers from Rouyn-Noranda.

Three other people who. could have been hospitality in Abitibi-Témiscamingue had to be exiled in another region. Some users are also in the house of the elders or in the CHSLD.

CEO Caroline Roy was not hidden: “The impact is almost in the entire team that. works at the Rouyn-Noranda hospital currently. but also on the teams and then the facilities that are elsewhere in our region”.

“This impact, our population can very well see and we ask to be forgiving,” she added.