Completely upset, Bianca Longpré had much to say about the state of the healthcare system and let out a heartfelt cry that resonated with many.
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Kimi, her 14-month-old son, has been ill for several days, but the family mother encounters several obstacles in trying to secure adequate care for her child.
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Angry, the one nicknamed Ordinary Mother wrote a long text on her Facebook page, in which she got carried away with Quebec’s healthcare system, which she saw as having several flaws. Bianca is herself a former nurse and mother of four children and does not mince her words when it comes to those responsible and the bureaucracy of the health system. She even offers some solutions that she says would greatly improve the process for everyone.
Here is his text in full:
“**Please do not suggest a clinic***
I am writing you the status of a mother who is disgusted by Quebec’s totally crooked healthcare system, kept at a distance by competent staff, but out of breath, and I understand her!
My words are harsh on the system, but that’s how I feel, certainly like thousands of Quebecers who are fed up with paying taxes without quality healthcare services.
Here is the obstacle course to visit the doctor for a child of only 14 months.
I had spoken to a doctor a while ago, “Wait, it will pass,” he told me on the phone. Two weeks later it gets worse.
My Kimi has a pediatrician “WOW WAS LUCKY” you tell me right away! But her pediatrician is human and she has COVID…
“Never mind, someone from his office will see your child!” »
no Every day when I call it’s full the first minute it opens.
Luckily, Children’s’s set up a number to have an RV in case of a pediatric emergency. SURPRISE It’s not quite the service…instead they take you to counters where everything is full. AGAIN.
I call my local area, there is a service for people without a doctor… but since he has a pediatrician he cannot be seen using the service.
So I go through the private clinics: everything is ULTRA COMPLETE and has been for days.
TELEMEDICINE! I pay $95 to speak to a nurse who tells me that after all we can’t treat a baby with a fever and cough.
I call the clinics up to 2 hours from our house: NOTHING.
Hello health: NOTHING.
Health Switch: NOTHING.
But WHAT IS THIS SHIT? Since when can a 14-month-old child no longer be allowed to see a doctor?
I have to wait like hundreds of parents in the emergency room, 6-12-15 hours to be told “Here are your antibiotics” or “Yes, it’s a virus…” or… come back if it gets worse…
SERIOUS?
Is this really the kind of service we want?
That older people with knee problems or for follow-up care wait on a bench at 5 p.m. because their doctor is not there?
We may have a family doctor or a pediatrician, but these people cannot work 24 hours a day. And yet it is necessary to be able to join them?
Moms tell me it’s impossible to reach their doctor.
I have received dozens of messages from moms who have gone to the ER for EAR, bronchitis and SINUSITIS over the past few days!!!
How do I have to babysit my eldest children (my boyfriend isn’t there) to spend the night in the hospital with a feverish and sick baby for a medical condition that doesn’t require an EMERGENCY TRANSPORT? This is our healthcare system?
We don’t want to go to the ER, but there’s just no way
THANKS TO A GOLDEN GIRL WHO ORGANIZED AN APPOINTMENT FOR ME TONIGHT
(That said, the struggle is still there. Thinking of all those seeking help!)
There you will tell me stop crying and offer solutions. Well, here it is:
– an IPS next to triage for cases that can be dealt with with it. They will tell me there is no IPS, well get scholarships they train open spots in the program and there will be. QUEBEC NEEDS IT!
– The Order of Doctors who want to keep all the files for the doctors IT IS DONE!!! They don’t respond to the request. Until you respond to the request to DELEGATE to nurses, pharmacists, inhalos, etc.
– Regulate the files of immigrant doctors. Pair them with Doctors so they can at least reach their full potential! If I have laryngitis, I don’t care where the diploma came from! We’re not talking about neurosurgery.
– use the full potential of pharmacists. Super trained and qualified, they are needed so little!
– That the triage nurse can prescribe X-rays and blood tests. She has the clinical judgment to do that. When you get to the doctor, you already have your results. Don’t wait 12 hours to tell yourself to go for a blood test and x-ray and wait another 4 hours for the result. What management from 1940!!!
– A 24/7 non-emergency pediatric emergency in ANY non-RV region. We will wait, but without charging a real emergency service. It will empty the ER. Emergency physicians can work on REAL emergencies.
– subsidize through scholarships all health professionals who wish to “top up” their level of study with the promise of working for the public.
– Stop preventing RAMQ doctors from working for the public. Private agreement to enroll RAMQ patients.
– Clinic without appointment 24/24 vulnerable clientele: children, elderly, etc. with nurse who can treat and/or guide minor emergencies.
– Use technology to set up services with otoscopes, pulse oximeters, etc. so that telemedicine is more effective. That’s enough from the telemedicine of the 2000s!
That’s when you’ll say, “Ooh, you’re just a mom, ex-nurse, take care of your kids and let the professionals take care of the healthcare system…”
I think we have proof that management/bureaucracy by senior managers just doesn’t work…
Gather IPS, Nurses, Coordinators, Assistants, PABs, Docs who work on the floor, ask them for their ideas, implement the solutions of people who REALLY WORK on the floor. Paper solutions from a person who hasn’t set foot on the ground for 20 years: IT’S WORTH NOTHING. ERIEN
We get our slap in the face from a Secretary of Health in an office proposing deals that don’t contribute to progress. Cristie’s promises aren’t worth it
There are hundreds of people who have inexpensive solutions that would change things. But you’re… it’s not complicated enough… not enough bureaucracy.
Anyway… I will take care of my baby.
CHEERS to all parents, families and carers who are in the same boat.”
As we mentioned at the beginning, his message seems to have resonated with several netizens, commented and shared by thousands of subscribers, in addition to mentioning having experienced similar situations to his.