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"Someone brought the infection into his room," he said.Six days after the positive test result, Frank Peres died at the Jewish General Hospital.His family has signed on to a class-action lawsuit against Quebec's network of public long-term care homes, known by their French initials as CHSLDs, to shine a light on how badly they feel the system is failing seniors.Lawyer Philippe Larochelle said the Peres family is looking for accountability for what happened to their parents and so many others in their situation.Nearly two-thirds of the 4,713 Quebecers who have died from complications of COVID-19 were residents of long-term care homes.Larochelle believes the high rate of infection and deaths from COVID-19 in those CHSLDs are a direct result of the conditions that were in place before the pandemic. Résidence Floralies Lachine 650, 32 nd Avenue Lachine, QC H8T 3K4 (514) 637-0005 (514) 637-4525 sperras@residencesfloralies.qc.ca . "Peres's father, Frank, and his 84-year-old mother, Doris, lived at Centre d'Hébergement de Lachine. "How can one have a baseline for patient care if you don't even understand who they are? "Within 12 months, she was bedridden and paralyzed with fear about moving," said Peres.Her immobility and the lack of stimulation seriously affected her quality of life. If she couldn't wait, she had to go in her diaper.Peres said the wait caused her to suffer from heart palpitations, sweats and severe cramping. Information about testing clinics is available at this address. Patients who test positive for COVID-19 and who require hospitalization will continue to be transferred to one of the designated hospitals. The novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV was detected in the city of Wuhan (Hubei province) in China. "It was one of the scariest moments of my life," said Peres, who lives in Toronto.He'd never heard his father so upset.
People over 70 and those with pre-existing health issues have proven to be the most at risk. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Comments on this story are moderated according to ourIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onCHSLD Sainte-Dorothée in Laval currently has the highest number of cases at 120, accounting for 62 per cent of the available beds in the long-term care home.Here's a list of Quebec's long-term care homes with confirmed COVID-19 cases'They die so fast': As Quebec scrambles to save seniors, nurse says she's never seen anything like COVID-19 The staff were equally tight-lipped about how many people were infected or who had died, he said. COVID-19 : Enrico Ciccone au front avec ses collègues L'ancien hockeyeur devenu député va prêter main-forte dans un CHSLD de Lachine pendant la crise Live statistical updates FLATTEN is a platform that collects data in real time based on information entered by citizens about their symptoms.. "Peres and his family often witnessed his parents' calls for assistance go unanswered, sometimes for hours, due to chronic short-staffing.At the time that Doris Peres was admitted to the Lachine facility, in April 2018, she was still able to walk with the help of a walker, to get in and out of bed by herself and use the washroom, her son says.But within six months, she was in diapers and had gained 25 pounds, which Peres blames on a lack of exercise and physiotherapy, and a poor diet. Centre d'hébergement de Lachine. If you are worried about COVID-19 or if you have flu-like symptoms or gastroenteritis symptoms or similar to COVID-19, you can call 514-644-4545 and 1-877-644-4545 (toll free) elsewhere in Québec. "My dad told us there were several people infected on his wing," said Peres.According to the lawsuit, by May 1, 65 residents of Centre d'Hébergement de Lachine were infected. With families barred from visiting, neither Ian Peres nor his two brothers, who live in Montreal, could go to the long-term care home to console their father and to find out what was going on.Their rooms were just the length of the corridor apart, but isolated from one another since the start of the pandemic, Frank never got the chance to see his wife of nearly 60 years and say goodbye.Ian and his brothers discussed pulling their dad out of the care home immediately, but they were worried he would lose his spot if they later brought him back to the institution. Une importante éclosion de COVID-19 frappe un CHSLD Saint-Charles-Borromée, près de Joliette, où 20 résidents et trois employés ont été contaminés. In mid-March, they were isolated in their separate rooms at CHSLD Lachine. I can only imagine she suffered some massive organ failure as a result," said Peres.When the pandemic hit, Peres said, his family was not able to get any information from the Lachine home about whether it was secluding COVID-positive residents. Tous les jours, on a des équipes de prévention des infections, des rappels écrits, des rencontres d’équipes [...] pour maintenir le niveau de vigilance, le niveau de rigueur dans le port de l’équipement de protection», assure Philippe Éthier, directeur général adjoint du CISSS de Lanaudière.Une enquête est en cours afin de savoir d’où est issue cette éclosion.
Les mesures contre la COVID-19 auraient été bafouées par les sauveteurs. Le CHSLD Parphilia-Ferland compte 170 lits et est situé au CISSS de Lanaudière, à Saint-Charles-Borromée.L’éclosion a été enregistrée dans une unité où se trouvent 34 usagers. 514 634-7161 She was wheeled to the front of the elevators, and she was left there the entire day facing the wall," said Peres. It offers screening services to the population every day from 8 am to 8 pm, seven days a week. He's convinced his father, who had no major underlying health issues, would have lived another five or 10 years had he not contracted COVID-19. Une importante éclosion de COVID-19 frappe un CHSLD près de Joliette, dans Lanaudière, où 20 résidents et trois employés ont été contaminés.
He questions the safety protocols the nursing home had in place and doesn't understand why front-line workers continued to move from home to home.