People who fear having COVID-19 will no longer have to wait hours on a telephone line before being tested in Montreal. As of Monday, a walk-in clinic will be set up in the Quartier des spectacles.
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This outdoor development will screen between 2,000 and 2,500 people per day, according to the CIUSSS du Center-Sud-de-l’île-de-Montréal. This is between two and three times more than the number of tests currently performed in the former Hôtel-Dieu hospital.
In fact, almost all of the resources of the Hôtel-Dieu will be transferred to the Quartier des spectacles. As of Monday, the old hospital will no longer be open to the public, only medical staff who have good reason to believe that they could be carrying the virus will be tested there.
People passing through the Quartier des spectacles must also meet certain criteria for a nurse to take the time to screen them. They must be experiencing symptoms or have been in contact with someone infected, among other things.
Those which will not be the case will have to turn back.
It is the same procedure as at the Hôtel-Dieu.
The waiting time before having the result also remains the same: between 24 and 36 hours, said the CIUSSS of Center-Sud-de-l’île-de-Montréal.
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