Class-action lawsuit application for COVID-19 response in care homes begins in Quebec

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By Staff The Canadian Press

Posted September 18, 2023 1:09 pm

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WATCH: Long-term attraction location residents were kept successful a unsighted spot successful the aboriginal days of the pandemic successful March 2020, according to a long-awaited coroner's report. Coroner Géhane Kamel's inquest looked astatine 53 deaths successful semipermanent attraction during the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, including 47 astatine the Herron, a backstage Montreal-area attraction home. Global’s Phil Carpenter reports – May 16, 2022

A Quebec Superior Court justice is being asked to authorize a class-action suit connected behalf of each residents of nationalist semipermanent attraction homes that experienced COVID-19 outbreaks during the pandemic’s archetypal 2 waves.

Montreal lawyer Patrick Martin-Menard said Monday successful tribunal that Quebec’s aboriginal effect to COVID-19 successful semipermanent attraction homes was marked by improvisation and that a pre-existing pandemic program was ignored until it was excessively late.

The suit would besides see household members of residents who died betwixt March 2020 and March 2021.

Martin-Menard says that outbreaks astatine attraction homes would person been prevented had the existing program been enactment into action.

He says semipermanent attraction centres were ill-prepared to person patients from hospitals, and couldn’t decently attraction for residents aft the authorities banned visits from household caregivers.

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Lawyers for the Quebec authorities are scheduled to reason against the suit aboriginal this week.

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