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The children of elderly residents at a long-term care centre in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, where staff was reduced significantly after the coronavirus spread through it, praised the nurses and other orderlies for doing all they could before no one was able to show up to work earlier this week.

A doctor who has worked at the CHSLD Vigi Dollard-des-Ormeaux for roughly 20 years told LCN on Tuesday that no staff, including nurses and auxiliary nurses, had shown up for work that morning.

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Michel Pagé, the doctor who was interviewed, said he had serious concerns for the health of the 160 people who live there. According to statistics supplied by the provincial government, as of Monday the private facility on Thornhill St. had 89 residents who were diagnosed with COVID-19.

Pagé told LCN that medication had to be rationed on Tuesday, and he had concerns about the residents getting fed and whether some would end up dehydrated. The West Island CIUSSS sent replacement staff later that day.