24/7 CLSCs : Quebec Solidare

Québec Solidaire health critic Amir Khadir has suggested that CLSC’s stay open all week, twenty-four hours a day.

According to the Gazette, Khadir made the suggestion Saturday during a campaign for Québec solidaire candidate Édith Laperle as a way of reinforcing the public health-care system.

A physician by profession, Khadir said that CLSCs are currently being under-utilized, criticising private clinics as ‘parasites of the public system’ for their trend in recent years.

Laperle also said that she wants CLSC’s to return to their original mission of front-line care.

She pledged that if elected, she would extend the operating hours of the CLSC in Cote des Nieges as a pilot project.