No criminal charges to be laid against CHSLD Herron over COVID-19 deaths As of today, 11,289 people have died of COVID-19 in Quebec, many of them residents in long-term care homes and other facilities for seniors.Castonguay says there was no official body tasked with compiling results of the evaluations conducted in long-term care homes, adding that the government didn’t evaluate the care given to seniors in private residences that had contracts with the province.
Glaring flaws in Quebec long-term care homes repeatedly flagged before COVID-19 crisis: ombudsman She says that as a result of the lack of proper evaluations, it was difficult to hold health-care providers accountable for their conduct during the pandemic.Castonguay’s final.