Quebec coroner outraged by delay in getting nurses to hard-hit Résidence Herron
Sep 10, 2021 | 12:21 PM
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MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner says she is appalled by the amount of time it took to get nurses to a suburban Montreal long-term care home where 47 people died during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A first nurse arrived at Résidence Herron on April 9, 2020 with a team of a dozen nurses she’d recruited herself, 10 days after regional health officials had seen the situation first-hand.
Before that date, managers at the regional health authority serving western Montreal had been helping out at the home, but only a few had formal nursing training.
That it took nearly 10 days for nurses to arrive angered coroner Géhane Kamel, who said it was known by that time that residents were slowly dying.
