Chlo\u00e9 B\u00e9langer died in the days after she was seen at the Gatineau Hospital<\/a> for an asthma attack. <\/p>\nAt the time, her mother Alexandra Desjardins-Gunville said that while her daughter was seen by respiratory therapists and a doctor, the family was left alone for extended periods of time. <\/p>\n
She said they felt like they had to “beg” for further help until B\u00e9langer went into what she was later told was cardio-respiratory arrest. <\/p>\n
She was transferred to Ottawa and died a few days later. <\/p>\n
The coroner’s report from the Quebec coroner\u2019s office is dated Oct. 14 and, in French, goes over the approximately eight hours between the girl arriving at the Gatineau Hospital emergency room and leaving with a medical team for Ottawa. <\/p>\n
It outlines 14 changes being made by local health authority Sant\u00e9 Qu\u00e9bec Outaouais (SQO). <\/p>\n
They include reviewing the plan for moderate to severe child asthma and clarifying roles and responsibilities of staff in the pediatric department.<\/p>\n
Medical staff are also being told to emphasize parent concerns in clinical evaluations and to supervise and document parent participation in the administration of treatments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The report says changes should be in place this autumn and it will start checking they’re in place in December. The office does not have the legal mandate to assign blame or analyze the quality of health-care worker actions.<\/p>\n
Saddened measures weren’t in place<\/p>\n
In a statement to Radio-Canada, Desjardins-Gunville said she is saddened by the long list of changes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am tired of a system that tends to correct things after a tragedy takes place,\u201d said the mother’s French statement.<\/p>\n
She still said she hopes they will prevent similar instances from happening in the future.<\/p>\n
“We miss [Chlo\u00e9] every second,” Desjardins-Gunville said. “I wouldn’t even wish it on my worst enemy.”<\/p>\n
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Health authority investigating 4-year-old girl\u2019s death after she visited Gatineau Hospital for asthma attack<\/p>\n
The public health authority for the Outaouais is reviewing the case of a child patient who died in the days after she was seen at Gatineau Hospital for an asthma attack. CBC\u2019s Liam Baker spoke with the girl\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
The Quebec coroner\u2019s office declined further comment and directed Radio-Canada to the Ontario coroner\u2019s office, which is leading the investigation on the case.<\/p>\n
CBC News reached out to the Ontario coroner\u2019s office, but was told it could not provide its own report, nor comment on the case, citing provincial laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement to Radio-Canada, the health authority said it could not comment on the details of the situation to respect the confidentiality of personal information.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SQO said following B\u00e9langer\u2019s experience, the organization \u201cquickly undertook a thorough review that led to the implementation of an improvement plan aimed at strengthening the quality and safety of care and services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-948928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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