Quebec Hospital System

When an individual would fall ill, the first place that they would go to is a hospital. A hospital considers to be the perfect place to heal individuals because it is considered as “an institution where the sick, wounded, infirm or incapacitated are nursed and given medical treatment.” (“Hospital”, 2006, 1). In the publics eyes, a hospital can be seen as an easy structure where the staff manages everything correctly. However, the staff must follow the government in taking orders because the federal and provincial governments manages the hospital system. A government considers to be “a political system through which a body of people is administered and regulated.” (“Politics”, 2009, 1). The government may try to run hospitals perfectly by showing …show more content…
There are often problems that arise in the hospital system, which automatically blames the government for not handling the institution properly. There can be limitations when dealing with the hospitals system within the province of Quebec because the government can sometimes not reveal all of its information publicly in order to demonstrate that it is not politically corrupted. Furthermore, individuals tend to seek information that the government would sometimes not provide. For example, the number of contaminates in the hospitals in Quebec was an “overall of 52% (135/259) of samples were positive for cyclophosphamide, 20% (53/259) were positive for ifosfamide.” (Brussières, Tanguay, Touzin, Langlois, Lefebvre, 430, 2012). Contaminates can exposed everywhere inside the institution without individuals knowing that the hospital can be contaminated or not. In addition, hazardous events often occur within the hospital that bring an impact on the health of the patient. For example, a total of “255 patients who experienced adverse events, 106 were judged to have one or more with a high preventability rating.” (Blais, R. Brown, A. Cox, J. Derflingher, L.P. Etchells, E. Flinton, V. Ghali,