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Provincewide, 77 per cent of workers in public and private institutions have received two doses of vaccine against COVID-19, according to a recent survey by the Health Ministry.
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But the numbers differ from region to region. Only 68 per cent of health-care workers are adequately vaccinated in Nunavik, while 87 per cent are in the Gaspésie Îles-de-la-Madeleine region.
The other regions with the lowest full vaccination rates among health-care workers are the Outaouais (69 per cent), Eastern Townships (72 per cent) and Laurentians (72 per cent).
QUEBEC CITY A committee at the Quebec National Assembly began new work Friday on possibly expanding medical assistance people who want to end their lives. In 2014, Quebec enacted a law to offer medical assistance in dying (MAID) to people who fit within a certain category: patients of adult age, suffering from a serious and incurable illness, at the end of life, where their suffering was deemed intolerable. The end-of-life criterion was eliminated in 2020 in response to a Superior Court ruling in favour of Nicole Gladu and Jean Truchon, who were suffering from serious health problems without being in agony.
MONTREAL Many health care workers in Quebec are still reluctant to be vaccinated, according to recent information by the Ministry of Health. In CHSLDs across the province, 51 per cent of support staff, 64 per cent of nursing assistants and 67 per cent of orderlies have received the vaccine. The Estrie and Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec regions are the poorest performers when it comes to vaccinating support staff in CHSLDs, with rates of 42.1 per cent and 43.6 per cent. About 57 per cent of aides are vaccinated in Laval, Maurice-Centre-du-Québec and the Outaouais, according to a table provided by the ministry. Similarly, immunization rates among nursing assistants are below 60 per cent in three regions: Estrie, Laval and Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec.
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.