According to the minister, this reform is necessary to improve access to healthcare. However, it raises some fears in the network.

Christian Dubé has also reiterated the desire to carry it out in consultation with health workers.

Unlike the 2015 reform, it’s a project I submitted a year ago, the health plan. I said that I would like to have a more human and efficient network. We have tabled a bill that we will not complete for the next two weeks. I said we would have a transition plan. Nurses will participate in this transition planhe assured.

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One vote for elected officials

The prefect of the MRC d’Arthabaska, Christian Côté, is happy about this meeting, as the minister wants to give a voice to the elected representatives in the boards of health institutions.

He came to ask us questions, to find out how we saw it. The part that I appreciated, and is a bit music to our ears, is having building and building managers backhe pointed out.

Union disappointment

However, union representatives from the region regret that they were not invited to the visit.

Keep in mind that some of their workers now have to work one weekend in three. They have many concerns related to Bill 15, including brain drain, seniority and the functioning of private sector deals.

It’s a bit of a paradox. We see the minister coming for his Bill 15 when healthcare professionals have been calling him for weeks and months to see what’s happening in Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec in terms of mergers. That’s what they asked for, to be listened to. I wish he had called us so we could ask a few questions.lamented the interim president of the Union of Care Professionals of Mauricie and Center-du-Québec (SPS-MCQ), Patricia Mailhot.

Christian Dubé was also asked about the construction of a new hospital in Drummondville.

He made no specific commitment to that file.

With information from Jean-François Dumas