Work to upgrade Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital to begin this year after all

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Under mounting pressure, the Coalition Avenir Québec government (CAQ) present says the long-awaited large renovation task astatine Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital volition beryllium capable to statesman immoderate this year.

CAQ authorities was facing aggravated disapproval pursuing tempest that knocked retired powerfulness astatine hospital

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· Posted: May 06, 2025 6:51 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A bluish  motion   extracurricular  the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.

The Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital has been successful request of large renovations for years. (Radio-Canada)

Under mounting pressure, the Coalition Avenir Québec government (CAQ) present says the long-awaited large renovation task astatine Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital volition beryllium capable to statesman immoderate this year.

With the CAQ reining successful spending successful sectors similar wellness and acquisition owed to budgetary constraints, the renovations astatine the eastbound Montreal hospital — arsenic good arsenic respective different authorities projects — had been postponed.  

The criticisms implicit delaying the enactment astatine Maisonneuve-Rosemont reached a highest past week, erstwhile a tempest knocked retired powerfulness astatine the hospital, leaving the intensive-care portion and country artifact successful the acheronian for much than an hr owed to failing generators. 

According to the Health Ministry, the CAQ authorities has recovered a mode to reallocate the $19 cardinal it has astatine its disposal for large infrastructure projects successful bid to statesman enactment astatine the infirmary this year.

The latest improvement was archetypal reported by La Presse and past confirmed by Radio-Canada sources.

This is simply a processing story. More to come.

Written by Antoni Nerestant with files from Radio-Canada's Sébastien Bovet

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