Officials in Quebec Investigating After Two Deaths in Montreal-Area Hospital ER

Published on December 5, 2023

Quebec’s health minister on Dec. 5 defended his government’s efforts to reduce wait times in hospitals, yet admitted it was “completely unacceptable” two people died in a Montreal-area emergency room last week. The deaths at Anna-Laberge hospital, in Chateauguay, Que., south of Montreal, are now the subject of investigations by the Quebec coroner’s office and the local health authority, Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de la Montérégie-Ouest. Health officials have refused to provide details, including the dates the deaths occurred. The two patients died during what the authority described in an email on Dec. 5 as a period of high traffic and “very high” wait times in its facilities....

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