MONTREAL - Nursing students and recent graduates from nursing programs in Quebec say working conditions in the province's public health-care system are pushing them into the private sector, further exacerbating a shortage of nurses in provincial hospitals.
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Whenever the COVID-19 pandemic ends and the final wave crashes on shore, it will carry with it a reckoning for the people who bore the heaviest burden of care in this pandemic, Canada’s 440,000 nurses
MONTREAL style= padding: 5px; >The Quebec Nurses Association has published a statement, calling on Quebec and Canada to adopt Joyce s Principle. The letter is below. A year before the death of Joyce Echaquan, which occurred on Sept. 28, 2020, the Viens Commission declared that the Indigenous peoples of Quebec were victims of systemic discrimination:
“Whether it is on the basis of physical health, mental health, justice, life expectancy, parenthood, housing or income, the difficulties experienced by the Indigenous peoples of Quebec clearly demonstrate the failure of the public system to meet their needs. For this, we are collectively responsible. - Jacques Viens (2019), commissioner of the inquiry on the relations between Indigenous peoples and certain public services in Quebec