In connection with the temporary closure of the intensive care unit of the Dolbeau-Mistassini hospital and the 4-year kindergarten classes of the Center de services scolaire du Pays-des-Bleuets due to staff shortages, sends an outcry from the heart through an open letter published on Friday in The daily.

This is a problem that is really recurring and widespread. We really have to challenge the government. We’re still an hour and a half from the nearest university and we don’t have a college close by. […]. It’s difficult to bring graduates back to us. For us, despite the exceptional quality of life and all efforts, the remoteness is an obstacle to recruitment he pointed out during an interview with the program It’s never the same.

Luc Simard wants them MRC be declared a remote region in order to facilitate the recruitment of professionals thanks to various incentives.

We know it exists for doctors. Whoever comes to us has advantages and that makes it much easier to recruit doctors from us. Yes, it’s an idiom at the same time because we want it to apply to unionized healthcare workers, but also to teachers for schools and professionals who provide services he pleads.

According to director Simard, the straw that broke the camel’s back was the crisis situation at the Center de services scolaire du Pays-des-Bleuets, which has the highest number of unskilled teachers in the country.

” We work a lot to be attractive. We are always told in the media that there are no health or education services. It will be difficult to bring people to new families. That’s why we’re doing this trip. »

Atypical working hours, monetary incentives or other recruitment-promoting measures. Luc Simard demands this in his letter from the government.

money speaks This is often the first incentive, but flexible schedules and other measures could be put in place. Our hands are tied. We cannot give land to build. There are many things you cannot do. But I think the government as an employer can make a difference he believes.

While the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital is making headlines due to business disruptions due to a critical staff shortage, the situation in Dolbeau-Mistassini is not attracting as much attention, according to the prefect.

The government regards the regions as homogeneous entities. We need to stop looking at a region as one big entity and look at RCMs like us asks Luc Simard.

Several meetings were held, attended by elected representatives of the MRC de Maria-Chapdelaine and members of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) regional caucus. The communication channels are open and the exchange fruitful. Luc Simard nevertheless calls for concrete action by Quebec in the best interest of the population of upper Lac-Saint-Jean.