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Hospital to pay C. difficile victims' families
By Caroline D'astous and Christine Bouthillier, QMI Agency
MONTREAL - In what's believed to be a Canadian first, a hospital will pay a total of $1 million to families of 16 people who died after contracting the C. difficile bacterium, a hospital spokesman confirmed.
Some 40 other patients who survived the outbreak at Honore-Mercier Hospital, east of Montreal, will also be eligible to tap into the compensation fund agreed to in an out-of-court settlement.
A hospital spokesman confirmed the news to QMI Agency this week.
"Of course it will not bring back our loved ones, but it's at least a small compensation," said Lucille Huard, whose father Albert was the first patient to die in the outbreak between May and November 2006...
Hospital to pay C. difficile victims' families
By Caroline D'astous and Christine Bouthillier, QMI Agency
MONTREAL - In what's believed to be a Canadian first, a hospital will pay a total of $1 million to families of 16 people who died after contracting the C. difficile bacterium, a hospital spokesman confirmed.
Some 40 other patients who survived the outbreak at Honore-Mercier Hospital, east of Montreal, will also be eligible to tap into the compensation fund agreed to in an out-of-court settlement.
A hospital spokesman confirmed the news to QMI Agency this week.
"Of course it will not bring back our loved ones, but it's at least a small compensation," said Lucille Huard, whose father Albert was the first patient to die in the outbreak between May and November 2006...