Cry of the heart for access to care in Minganie

In Baie-Johan-Beetz. Nevertheless, Natashquan, elected officials require the return of CLSC and pre-hospital care at any time. Furthermore, The villages denounce a degradation of health services in Minganie which worries them for the safety of the population.

Éric Drouin has been established in Baie-Johan-Beetz for a year. Therefore, after years of occasional visits to the village isolated from 83 inhabitants. In addition, Since his arrival. Similarly, the retired doctor has worked with the municipality to think about a way of Recover emergency care that had been offered for many years.

He explains that residents of Baie-Johan-Beetz could previously consult a nurse for emergency care at any time. Consequently, at CLSC from the village. Nevertheless, This care often allowed to cry heart access care minganie avoid a transfer. Therefore, to manage locally Situations like asthma attacks or allergic reactions, he quotes as an example.

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The mayor of the municipality. Furthermore, Sébastien l’Écuyer, said, however, that these services have been gradually withdrawn since 2022. It was done a little in the shadowshe cry heart access care minganie raises. Only one nurse is now working in Baie-Johan-Beetz, and her role is circumscribed, according to him.

After talking about it with around twenty of his fellow citizens. Éric Drouin notes that they no longer feel as supervised as before. There was a feeling of security that no longer exists or very, very little nowhe deplores.

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In a context where the population of the village is becoming older. where you have to travel some 70 kilometers to reach Havre-Saint-Pierre, where the patients are sent in an emergency, the retired doctor is worried.

It is very insecure for people who have health concerns to be. in the village right now.

The mayor of the Mingan locality, Sébastien l’Écuyer, therefore requests an enlargement of the role of nurses to adapt to regional realities. He is sorry that his citizens must wait at least an hour For cry heart access care minganie an ambulance in an emergency. that the intervention cannot start directly on site.

The elected official also wants the equipment of CLSCthat he judges Office or absent, nonexistentbe improved.

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For its part. the Cisss de la Côte-Nord ensures that CLSC are equipped according to their mission, which is complementary to prehospital care.

He says that the role of Minganie nurses has recently been improved. that at least one nurse is available at all times to intervene in eastern Mingania outside opening hours.

Cry heart access care minganie

Two villages united by lack of access to care

The cry of the heart of Baie-Johan-Beetz. which adopted a resolution on this subject, was taken up by the cry heart access care minganie neighboring municipality. The director general of Natashquan. Benoît Léger, also believes that CLSC Minganie must be better equipped to meet the needs of citizens.

I hear examples of people who must make 150 kilometers round trip for a short consultationhe astonished. For emergencies. Benoît Léger believes that he is totally unrealistic that small municipalities like his provide a first respondent service independently.

The resident of Natashquan Bernard Roy. who is also a professor at the Faculty of Nursing of Laval University, painfully experienced the limits of the interventions offered to CLSC When he suffered from nephretic colic two years ago.

He says that the nurse could not give her cry heart access care minganie a morphine. that the dispensary was barely equipped for [le] receive While he was struggling with lively pain. Same thing in the ambulance, where he has passed a long journey has [se] bite your lips.

According to him. which works in the health sector, the municipality would benefit that the nurses have an extended role for such situations. He also believes that having two nurses and offering telemedicine are solution tracks.

With information from Alban Normandin