More than 100 patients transferred to newly opened Montreal superhospital
Montreal’s new French-language superhospital opened its emergency room at exactly 5 a.m. Sunday, at the very same moment that a 109-year-old hospital down the street was closing its doors for good.
At 7 a.m., Fatima Radics and her two-day-old baby Ophelia became the first patients to arrive at the hospital as part of a major operation to transfer patients to the newly-built Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal, or CHUM.
On Sunday, it took just over three hours to transfer 113 patients from the aging Saint-Luc Hospital.
They included five babies, four intensive care patients, and a pregnant woman in labour, according to the hospital’s president.