'A bad decision that's going to cost lives': Health-care workers protest cutbacks at Lachine Hospital
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Medical professionals and patients are protesting the MUHC's decision to cut back on services at Lachine Hospital, with many saying they're worried it's putting lives at risk.
Medical professionals and patients are protesting the MUHC's decision to cut back on services at Lachine Hospital, with many saying they're worried it's putting lives at risk.
As of Tuesday night, the Lachine Hospital in Montreal will no longer accept ambulances, instead redirecting them to other facilities. Walk-in patients will have access to an ER doctor until 10 p.m., and only for the next two weeks – as of March 1, the hospital with have no more emergency room doctors.
Josee Theoret has been an emergency room nurse at the Lachine Hospital for almost 40 years. Fighting back tears, she said she's thinking of the lives her team working overnights has saved.
"A baby of nine months that was (having) a heart problem… old people that were practically dying on the stretchers that we stabilize them," she said.
The hospital should be here to serve the local population, said Dr. Paul Saba.
"The administration is making a bad decision that's going to cost lives."
He added that closing this ER will only lead to more overcrowding at other Montreal hospitals.
