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Pasta with tomato juice as a meal before you die

Pasta with tomato juice as a meal before you die

A resident of Laval brought her father home at the end of his life for palliative care, and she was very angry to see him serving “disgusting” meals at the Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval.

“He literally couldn’t eat. It was horrible to see someone who was like that [au départ] You’re supposed to get better at serving such food,” says Natasha Gagliano.

His father, Angelo Galliano, was hospitalized for more than a month until last Friday at the Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval due to lung problems. He recently learned that he had less than two months to live due to fluid leaking into his lungs.

If Mr. Gagliano was satisfied with the care he received, it would be quite the opposite for the meals. Allergic to onions and suffering from diabetes, the 70-year-old says there were only the same four options on his menu.

Great sadness

“It repeats itself, you look at it, and you feel like throwing up. It’s the most disgusting thing to be offered the same thing over and over again, and he breaks down into tears on the phone. I’ve worked for 60 years paying taxes to contribute to the health system,” says Mr. Gagliano.

Not only was the menu extensive, but the dishes themselves were unappetizing, as evidenced by photos taken by his daughter, Natasha Gagliano.

A dish of pork, rice and carrots was served at Cité-de-la-Santé.

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A dish of pork, rice and carrots was served at Cité-de-la-Santé.

a slice of pork with baby carrots and a rice ball or even white noodles served over a tomato juice-like sauce; Here are a few examples of meals that likely won’t make your readers jealous.

“We were able to prepare our own food and bring it to him, but a few weeks ago, a nurse told us we couldn’t do that anymore because of COVID,” his daughter laments.

“It breaks my heart.”

Angered to see her father living his last days being treated in this way, she preferred to remove him from the hospital so that he could receive palliative care at home.

“It breaks my heart when I see people being caught eating this,” says Hugo Paquette of the CISSS de Laval-CSN trade union. everybody [à cet hôpital] Receive a meal similar to this. It’s been at least five years since we’ve been asking to change the menus and make them more diverse. »

CISSS de Laval called out for the reaction, calling in particular that Mr. Gagliano is on a “very limited” therapy diet for meal options.

The health minister’s office responded that “the pictures do not at all represent the quality of meals we want for all patients in Quebec.”

We will do the necessary checks with CISSS to understand what happened in this case.

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