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A 66-year-old Montreal man who is quadriplegic says he is seeking medical assistance in dying because changes to his home care services are causing him relentless pain and discomfort.
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MONTREAL The COVID-19 pandemic has put such a strain on Quebec s social services that a Montreal man living with a disability says he is struggling to get the help he needs to complete basic daily tasks.
Jacques Comeau, who has been living as a tetraplegic for 45 years, receives home-care from a CLSC twice a day. The caregivers help him get in and out of bed and aid him in bathing. But Comeau says the CLSC is so short-staffed that it frequently outsources the work to an agency, who may come hours early to put him to bed and, sometimes, not at all.