Reading a text of the newspaper The Sun, which recounts the adventures of a resident of Saguenay victim of H1N1 influenza. The manifestations of this flu have remained in a coma for some nine days! This text leads me to think about accessibility to health services here in Quebec. The citizen Saguenay testament to the quality and professionalism of the services received.
HAPPINESS INSIDE!
P Personal Productivity - as well as immediate family members - have benefited from professional services and specialized network of health and social services in Quebec. Some benefits still required followed by certain diseases or physical conditions.
During my civic commitments, I meet almost daily of people who can testify in the same direction. However I hear a lot and mostly negative comments!
After conversations and analysis, I concludes that the main problem of health services in Quebec is not the quality and professionalism, but accessibility! The front door is too narrow or poorly identified. Even professionals and other employees of the health system does not know the way to access specific services or the availability of certain services or specialized programs available to victims of chronic or degenerative diseases.
A DOOR OPEN OR CLOSED
accessibility to health services and social services is particularly limited outside major cities. Even within the National Capital Region, there are significant disparities in access to certain health services.
In the capital, victims of limitations or disabilities resulting from chronic or degenerative diseases have timely access to hospital services or technical services in a hospital or at the Institute for Physical Rehabilitation (IRDPQ), with the collaboration of the CLSC CSSS or their territory.
In the Portland area, a person with a chronic illness or degenerative disease will have to wait up to nine months before someone go to his home order to assess the accommodation needs of the premises or the use of a manual or motorized wheelchair to facilitate his movements. During the waiting period, the patient - who is aptly qualifier - is confined to his home and sometimes even to his bed. Often, caregivers pay the price of administrative deficiencies, and especially economic policies of our network of health and social services. In Charlevoix, if you are a victim of a failure of his motorized wheelchair, he must wait a week or more visiting the mountain technicians IRDPQ.
SERVICE QUALITY IS THERE,
HID LAST DOOR CLOSED!
For the citizens of Quebec have access to health services of high quality vocational and technical lurk in almost all health facilities in Quebec, we must show them the way forward, expanding access roads. This means that information and add the necessary human and financial resources in some areas.
During a 28-year career in the civil service in Quebec, I have contributed for 17 years - until 1996! Denis Lazure Jean Rochon - to communicate, work and enjoy the network Health and Social Services of Quebec, within the Communications Directorate of the Ministry of Health and Social Services. My first term in 1979 was to create a working group aimed to raise awareness of the 170 CLSC the time. The aim was to produce a brochure which was raising awareness CLSCs and services.
The group did not have long life and the brochure never existed!
At the end of my career, the only achievement of visible and effective communication: a unique ID and uniform, logo, adopted by all CLSCs and used by the Ministry of Transport on road signs to inform on the existence of a community health center nearby and on the road follow to reach the service point closest.
Any document information that can describe the mission, purpose, services offered by a CLSC and their availability to all citizens of Quebec City remains in the dream state. On their respective territories CLSC 1979 - Still a large number of existing CLSCs - were both social activist, Health Unit - of my youth - the doctors office, clinic appointments, immunization clinic, emergency room first level, caregiver front-line center, hospital, depending on the region, according to the distance between its territory from Montreal or Quebec!
Many people have never been able to go to a CLSC to receive quality care that were provided and that they were right! They were unaware of the existence and the authorities policies, at times, limiting access by refusing the funds required to learn about available services and add staff to meet the needs of the population of the territory. These people are now dead!
During the same period, investments in concrete! Hospitals care for long or short term have been built and promised during election periods, but remained unused for months - even years - because the Department did not have credit sufficient to purchase the furniture and equipment required, or to hire personnel to provide professional and technical services expected from the population.
The contents of brown envelopes could be used to address these health needs, rather than the needs of campaign funds!!
