The old adage that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is may apply to an announcement by Santé Québec that less than a year into its mandate, it has already succeeded in slashing the number of “service disruptions” in hospitals and long-term care centres — from 1,750 in the summer of 2024 to 310 for the equivalent period this year.
And even among those remaining 310 disruptions (which were not specified), Santé Québec claimed it had eased their severity through “mitigation measures” (also not specified).
But some observers aren’t buying Santé Québec’s rosy evaluation of its own performance, Gazette health reporter Aaron Derfel writes.
