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To Quebec, clinics of treatment of the pain closed these last months and others are also about to close. This situation worries the association of the chronic pain (AQDC), that asks an action " fast and concrete" of the ministry of Health and the social Services (MSSS).

The president of the AQDC, Jacques, sent a letter, last October 29, to minister Philippe Copular. He/it deplores the closing of the clinic of the pain of the hospital of Battlefield there, intervening in April 2007, as well as the one of the clinics of the Floury hospital of Montreal and the hospital of Seven Islands.

In Repenting, the clinic of the pain would have reduced " meaningfully" his/her/its activities, and the departure of two anesthetists, to the City of the Health of Laval, creates important delays of waiting, it also returns.

" The present situation is troubling and unacceptable for the thousands of existing patients and to come", affirm Jacques.

The vice-president of the AQDC, the Dare Aline Boulanger, refuses to qualify the situation however of " crisis". According to her, it is about a " unhappy coincidence that entails the delays and annoyances for the patients."

The ministry of Health has the obligation to increase the accessibility by other means or in other clinics, believes nevertheless the Dare Baker.

" One knows that some hospitals would have liked to open clinics of the pain, but they didn’t have the requisite resources, that it is with regard to the space or the staff. There would be grounds to sustain these hospitable centers", put forward the Dare Baker, herself director of two clinics of bread.

A person out of five is reached

According to Aline Boulanger, at least a person out of five to the country (20%) endures chronic pain. " The time of waiting to be been in clinic about pain, to Quebec, is of two years, what is comparable to the rest of Canada", affirm the clinician.

Otherwise, the ageing of the population will come to accentuate the needs of treatments bound to the chronic pain. The clinics of the pain won’t be able to settle the problem to them only, even though one increases the number of it. Family’s physicians would also have a role to play, estimate the vice-president of the AQDC however.

" In science of health, one receives a lot less formation in pain that in veterinary medicine! But that is going to change, throw the Dare Baker.

Following the recommendations of a committee presided by Aline Boulanger, the university of Montreal accepted, in September 2007, that the chronic pain is integrated henceforth to the set of the medicine program.

" Possibly, the physicians who will arrive on the market of work are going to be distinctly better prepared to face the problems of pains chronic of our patients", sustains the Dare Baker.

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