Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital: the work will be “in a timely manner”, says the CAQ

Work at Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) will be “timely,” said the minister responsible for infrastructure, Jonatan Julien, during a stormy question when the minds heard on Thursday.

The pressure is enormous on the Legault government so that it renovates the dilapidated hospital in eastern Montreal, where the vermin has settled and where a storm caused a serious breakdown of electricity and breakage on Tuesday.

A hurry by the opposition, the government still refused on Thursday to announce the start of the work that it had undertaken to launch in 2024. The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, was not in the chamber.

In turn, the Caquis ministers have therefore risen to the Red Show to justify the postponement of work at Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, notably evoking other pressing needs throughout Quebec.

Redeveloping sums already granted

According to what sources have unveiled on Radio-Canada, the government is evaluating all the health infrastructure projects in the province in order to Maximize the impact of amounts Available. This means that he evaluates if he can rearrange already granted sums.

On the side of Health Quebec, we have been waiting for this list of projects since April 11, which therefore suggests that a redevelopment is underway. This situation creates uncertainty in the network, still according to our sources. The teams that already work on projects wonder if they will get their funding.

The health infrastructure envelope is $ 3.6 billion for the current year, which includes a billion maintenance of assets, as Minister Dubé said on Wednesday.

Of this envelope, a sum of 40 million was granted to theHMR by the government. However, the plans and quotes for the repair of the hospital are far from finishedaccording to our sources. The sum of 40 million from whichHMR This year is therefore used to develop these plans, not to launch the work.

Ms. Biron’s visit, It’s too little, too late

The violent thunderstorms that broke out on Tuesday evening highlighted the urgency to launch the repair and enlargement work of theHMRclaimed – and rejected – for several years now.

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We went to the next of the disaster Tuesday evening, a source tells us. For example, the hospital has a single machine for the transfer of babies to another establishment. However, Tuesday evening, 11 babies should have been transferred at the time of the breakdown, which means that a manual ventilation should have been operated by a nurse. Fortunately, the breakdown was absorbed after about an hour.

Faced with the extent of the concerns, the CEO from Health Quebec, Geneviève Biron, went to theHMR Wednesday evening. It was important for me to be there. Yes, to meet teams, but also to see what happened on the spot, see the inventory, understand and offer our supportshe said on LinkedIn in the evening.

Ms. Biron assures that patient and team safety is priority. We are moving towards a solution to start the renovation and enlargement work of the hospital as quickly as possible. We are all able to see the importance of this project for the population of eastern Montreal.

By then, we will make sure to understand what happened and make the necessary fixes as soon as possible.

In interview with A whole morningthe deputy of Québec Solidaire in Rosemont, spokesperson for health, Vincent Marissal, was not impressed by the visit of Ms. Biron. There is no need for Ms. Biron and Health Quebec to find that this hospital is in a pitiful state. We just have to watchhe launched.

Ms. Biron, I’m sorry, but she is a bit like the firefighter who offers a smoke detector to a family who has just seen her house burn. It’s too little, too late. If Mrs. Biron has just seen the state of the hospital, and much better. Welcome to the club.

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Mr. Marissal also accuses Minister Christian Dubé to use the CEO of Health Quebec by sending it to the front While his mandate does not concern the construction of hospital, according to him, but rather the management of operations. It is up to the government to decide, it is up to the government to press the button, to launch the work.

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A project blocked for partisan reasons?

Pressed by the opposition to the National Assembly on Thursday, Caquis deputies accused the former liberal government of having poorly maintained the infrastructure over the years.

When we look at the under-investments of the Liberal Party when it was in power, […] It created this disusesaid the Minister responsible for infrastructure, Jonatan Julien. We go there step by step. Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital is important. We are going to go ahead in a timely time.

To which the parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party, Monsef Derraji, replied by saying to suspect the Legault government not to prioritize the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital for partisan reasons.

Moreover, the day before, Prime Minister François Legault had argued that his government was a regions And that he had to renovate hospitals also outside Montreal.

Addressing Mr. Legault directly on Thursday, Mr. Derraji exclaimed: Let him get up, look at Quebecers in his eyes and tell them: I canceled your project because you don’t vote on the right side.

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This accusation of supporter, the solidarity Vincent Marissal also echoed in his interview with Patrick Masbourian.

According to him, Minister Christian Dubé really wishes to launch the renovation project of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital. I’ll give it to him, he wants to do it. It is not he who blocks. It blocks elsewhere. It blocks higherhe argued.

We must unlock the money that was already planned for Maisonneuve-Rosemont, he said, stressing that This is not a new project […] It’s been 10-12 years that it must be rebuilt it.

More the CAQthis is the party of the regionshe launched. It is a question of political will. We do not want to launch this work because it is a lot, a lot of money in eastern Montreal and the CAQ has absolutely nothing to gain in eastern Montreal.

For his part, the PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon urged the Prime Minister to show elementary decency And to start renovation work.

With Sébastien information Bovet and the Canadian Press