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Quebec Premier François Legault announced Tuesday that Dr. Luc Boileau will be the province’s interim public health director, after Dr. Horacio Arruda, a key leader in the province’s pandemic response, tendered his resignation Monday.
Boileau, the current head of the province’s health-care research institute, the INESSS, takes on this new role as the Omicron wave continues to overwhelm hospitals across the province, forcing the health-care network to postpone surgeries and other medical services.
Legault thanked Arruda on Tuesday, noting he was in the difficult position of explaining public health decisions and said he’d grown close to him throughout the last 22 months of
