QUEBEC CITY François Legault s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is far from fulfilling its 2018 commitment to match all Quebecers with a family doctor. The CAQ says its objective is now to increase the percentage of the population registered with a general practitioner from 81 to 83 per cent by the end of this year. In January 2018, about 400,000 Quebecers were waiting to be matched with a family doctor. This figure has almost doubled in the last three years, reaching 700,000 by the end of 2020, the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) claims. Not only are we not moving forward, but we are moving backwards on (.) access to family doctors, said Marie Montpetit, the Liberal critic on health, during the budget review. How does the minister of health intend to achieve the objectives his government committed itself to?
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François Legault’s Coalition avenir Québec government is far from realizing its 2018 pledge to pair every Quebecer with a family doctor.
The commitment has been amended over the past three years, with the government now hoping to see 81 to 83 per cent of the population registered with a general practitioner by the end of 2021.
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In January 2018, about 400,000 Quebecers were waiting for a family doctor. But the Quebec Liberal Party says that number had swelled to 700,000 by the end of 2020.
MONTREAL Quebec has earmarked $100,000 in 2020-2021 to study the phenomenon of long COVID-19 and will spend another $100,000 in 2022-2023. A drop in the bucket, said Liberal health critic Marie Montpetit, considering that about 10 per cent of Quebecers who have contracted COVID-19 will have long-term effects. She pointed out some of the long-term symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, memory and concentration problems, anxiety and depression, as noted by the Quebec Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) on April 12. A substantial number of Quebecers are already in this situation, Montpetit said during the study of the Ministry of Health s budget. I have not heard the premier or the minister of health talk about this.
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