Two people died while waiting for care at the Anna-Laberge hospital, in Châteauguay, Que., last week.
Health Minister Christian Dubé, who visited the hospital on Montreal’s South Shore in the wake of the deaths to speak with the personnel involved, told reporters in Quebec City on Tuesday that the province’s emergency rooms are full to bursting and the situation “is not improving.”
“It’s completely unacceptable that we have these situations in our emergency rooms here in Quebec,” Dubé said.
The deaths are now the subject of multiple investigations, involving both the coroner’s office and the local health authority, a spokesperson for the health
