Yesterday, a Quebec coroner entered the controversial debate on reasonable accommodation by suggesting caregivers in the province should show more openness to the needs of immigrant patients.
Following the recent 4 deaths of newcomers to Quebec, Dr. Jacques Ramsay presented his reports on the accommodation of minorities to a government commission .
He told a news conference in Montreal yesterday, that the deaths could have been avoided, claiming linguistic and cultural barriers often prevent patients from getting the care they need.
Ramsay cited the example of one man who entered a psychotic state and later killed himself thinking his wife had been diagnosed as HIV positive.
In fact, the Albanian immigrant had misunderstood when hospital staff informed him his wife's blood type was A positive.
Ramsay says that health care workers should work from the assumption that no accommodation is unreasonable when it comes to somebody's health.
Original article by the Canadian Press
Editor:
"How's that for a little misunderstanding............?"
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