Health

An expert from the Royal Ottawa Hospital gave a seminar on sleep at St. Paul’s Anglican Church hall in Shawville on Thursday morning (December 5), and despite the subject matter there was barely a yawn from the audience. The event was a collaboration between Connexions Resource Centre, a non-profit organization that promotes health and well-being […]

Since 2019, a group of people has come together to offer the Outaouais region its first palliative care home for children and their families, in a place that will be called Maison Papillon. A project is expected to come to fruition in 2025 in Cantley to offer this type of service in French, in Quebec. […]

Pontiac MNA André Fortin and health advocacy group SOS Outaouais are speaking out after the provincial government has announced that all local health care networks must balance balance their budgets by the end of the fiscal year. For the regional health authority CISSSO, this would mean a reduction of expenses by $90 million over the […]

With Quebec’s fall economic update scheduled for November 21, an umbrella group representing autonomous community organizations in the Outaouais region is calling for an increase in their funding from the province. Daniel Cayley-D’Aoust, the Director general of the Table régionale des organismes communautaires autonomes de l’Outaouais (TROCAO), explained that they represent a diverse group of […]

A local citizen activist is helping organize a public information session on radon next Saturday in Campbell’s Bay with a group of experts, to mark the beginning of Radon Action month. The free event will take place on Saturday November 2, at the Campbell’s Bay RA Hall (2 rue Second) from 1 p.m. to 3 […]

After more than 500 days without a collective agreement, the union representing Quebec’s nurses as well as other health professionals (FIQ) announced last week that their membership had voted to accept a mediator’s recommendation. The turnout among the FIQ’s roughly 80,000 members was 75%, with 66.3% voting in favour. The provincial government and the FIQ […]

Next week, regional health advocacy group SOS Outaouais will be holding a demonstration in Gatineau to decry the disparity between health care funding in the region and the rest of the province. The event will take place on Wednesday October 30 at Espace Canevas (425 boulevard Saint-Joseph in Gatineau) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. […]

Last week, Radio-Canada reported that Quebec was considering a change in how patients were assigned to see family doctors, prioritizing those with serious medical issues. If enacted, the change would mean that patients without serious health issues, even if they currently have a family doctor, would have to go through a version of the the […]

While Pontiac residents may be familiar with regional health authority CISSSO’s local users committees, which advocate for patients within a specific facility or local service area, they might be surprised to learn that there is a group that represents patients with intellectual disabilities and autism throughout the Outaouais. Michel Marcotte, a representative of the Intellectual […]

On Monday (September 30) the CEO of regional health authority CISSSO, Dr. Marc Bilodeau, was in Shawville at the Pontiac Hospital for a meeting with local representatives. This is Bilodeau’s second tour of the region since taking the helm of the organization in January 2024. Bilodeau spoke about the recent news reported in Le Droit […]