There are two confirmed COVID-19 cases at Ste. Anne’s Hospital for veterans in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, and a 97-year-old Second World War veteran is denouncing the hospital for its slow reaction to the coronavirus crisis. “I wrote something not long ago called ‘Russian roulette,’ because that’s what they’re playing with our lives,” said Wolf Solkin, who fought in Belgium during the Second World War and has lived at Ste Anne’s Hospital for seven years.
The West Island CIUSSS says a patient presenting no symptoms was admitted to Ste. Anne’s and placed into confinement on March 23.
The patient began showing COVID-19 symptoms, and was transferred to the Verdun Hospital on April 6th. She tested positive for COVID-19 on April 8.