Headlines from this weeks SPEC

Feb. 24, 2002

Based on hospitalization savings
A scanner could be bought within three years in Chandler,
Gilles Gagne

The Quebec Government could have granted a scanner to the Chandler Hospital within three years with the money this institution spent because patients have to take a room for one or two nights while waiting to undergo a scan at the nearest hospital, in Maria or Gaspe.

Such is the opinion of Doctor Samer Daher, director of professionnal services at the Chandler Hospital. Doctor Daher provides numbers to support his viewpoint. But he is so frustrated by what he calls "Government slowness" in the scanner file that he seriously considers giving up his administrative position, if the acquisition of a scanner for Chandler is not announced before mid March.

Man hangs himself in Chandler Hospital.
Management not to blame
Gilles Gagne

A 99 year old man from Sainte-Therese, near Grand River, hanged himself in a room at Chandler Hospital, on February 1st. The Surete du Quebec is investigating the case, but the first stages of the inquiry indicate that the management of the hospital is not to blame for this incident.
The elderly man had been admitted recently in the long term care unit, but he could not accept the fact that the hospital was now the place where he would have to live. He used the belt of his bathrobe to hang himself.

Seventy-five year old lady severely beaten in PaspŽbiac
No suspect arrested

Gilles Gagne

A 75 year old lady living alone in Paspebiac, Dorothy Beck, was seriously injured by an intruder on February 17, in her home, at 3:00 am. Mrs Beck, had to be sent to the Centre hospitalier Baie-des-Chaleurs in Maria because of a broken nose, broken bones in the shoulder area and many bruises all over her body.

Dorothy Beck was sleeping when a man wearing a mask broke into the back door of her house. The intruder wanted money, but he left with a only small amount of cash. The victim was able to call her neighbor, who called the ambulance and the police. Members of the Major crime squad of the Surete du Quebec spent the following day investigating Mrs. Beck's house in order to find clues about the robber.