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LEVIS - A coroner's inquest into long-term care deaths in Quebec during the pandemic's first wave resumed on Monday with the tabling of a report exposing years of neglect at a facility south of Quebec City.
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In the confusion that swept through Manoir Liverpool after the Quebec retirement home was hit by COVID-19 last year, much of the personnel went missing, residents weren’t properly fed and medications no longer were properly dispensed, documents filed at a coroner’s inquest allege.
Amid the chaos created by a staff shortage and dying COVID-19 patients being sent to hospital, one social worker recalled seeing tables covered with lost objects from Manoir Liverpool’s residents: clothing, hearing aids, adaptive shoes.
A coroner s inquest into long-term care deaths in Quebec during the pandemic s first wave resumed on Monday with the tabling of a report exposing years of neglect at a facility south of Quebec City.
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A private seniors’ residence in Lévis was already dealing with high personnel turnover before the pandemic began, but once the first COVID-19 cases were suspected, staff left in droves.
According to Micheline Beaupré, who worked in administration at Manoir Liverpool at the time, a widespread panic immediately set in once it was announced three residents were being tested for the disease.
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“When the personnel heard the word COVID, everyone left. My God, people left,” Beaupré said. “People of a certain age left, others left because they were scared. … It was quite the day.”