How the West Island s health-care system struggled through the 1st wave Jonathan Montpetit © Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press A sick resident is trundled out of CHSLD Herron to be taken to hospital on April 11.
It was 11:30 on a night in early May when Louisa Mussells Pires first walked into a long-term care home in Lachine and learned some hard truths about the health-care system in one of the richest countries in the world.
Pires, 31, had almost finished nursing school. There was a crying need for extra staff in Quebec s long-term care network, which had been decimated by COVID-19 infections. So she volunteered to help and readily agreed to grab a night shift at the CHSLD Nazaire-Piché.
Anatomy of a crisis: How the West Island s health-care system struggled through the 1st wave
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