Political squabbles led to awful conditions that residents at Herron nursing home died under, Quebec coroner says

Residents at Quebec’s Herron nursing home wouldn’t have died in such gruesome conditions if health officials and the home’s owners hadn’t squabbled for days, coroner Géhane Kamel said in her final remarks at her inquest into the impact of COVID-19 on the province’s eldercare facilities.

Ms. Kamel said that, had it been in her mandate, she would have recommended Quebec hold a full public inquiry on the events of spring 2020, which cost the lives of an estimated 5,000 seniors in the province’s congregate living settings.Premier François Legault has so far refused to order a public inquiry, arguing that Quebec nursing homes have already been investigated by oversight bodies such as the coroner’s office, the provincial Ombudswoman and the Auditor-General.

Ms. Kamel added that the inquest heard from relatives of residents and doctors who resorted to contacting newspapers to get the government to notice problems. “It’s not normal that citizens, or doctors, or employees feel the need to go through the media to get things to move.” “No one took charge of it – neither the ministry, nor the owners, nor the CIUSSS. They wrote to each other, exchanged a lot of e-mails, but during that time people were dying, people were dehydrated, people were lying in their feces,” Ms. Kamel said.

Deflecting from the pre-Covid picture. Quebec, more than most provinces, doesn't like seniors much and encourages them to live segregated from the rest even before LTC time. Only 5% of people over 75 in Ontario live in a retirement home vs 17% in Quebec.

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