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Article: CMASS, Hopital Charles LeMoyne: The Only Tertiary Traumatology Centre Located on Montreal's South Shore is no Longer Able to Fulfill its Mandate
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- CCNMatthews Newswire
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- January 18, 2007
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LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC--(CCNMatthews - Jan. 18, 2007) - The medical
specialists of Charles LeMoyne Hospital's traumatology program, one
of only four in existence in Quebec, conclude that they are no longer
able to fulfill the requirements of their mandate. In addition, they
fear that as the risk that certain polytraumatized patients will be
deprived of an efficient coordination of multiphasal, complex and
highly specialized care continues to increase, the population of the
Monteregie region will inevitably suffer.
At a media roundtable event held this afternoon, spokespersons for
the specialists involved explained that the crisis attained its peak
on January 8th, when the four general surgeons ...