Abuse at the CHSLD de La Prairie: Blanger orders a new investigation [Video]

The Minister responsible for Seniors, Sonia Bélanger, announced on Wednesday that she has ordered a new investigation at the long-term care centre (CHSLD) in La Prairie in connection with acts of abuse.

“The CISSS of Montérégie-Ouest conducted an internal investigation. Since I am not satisfied with the conclusions I saw, I have asked the ministerial teams to investigate,” she said in a press scrum.

Le Journal de Montréal reported on Monday that an attendant at the CHSLD in La Prairie allegedly punched an 86-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s a few weeks before her death.

Employees reportedly saw the same attendant strike another resident on the head and forcibly straighten the arm of a third elderly person with stiff limbs.

Citing the Journal article on Wednesday, Liberal MP Linda Caron pointed out that the man in question had been suspended for three weeks with pay and then relocated, while a whistleblower …