1 minute of silence: Inside the Quebec ER that cared for abandoned newborn who died

Dr. Marc-Antoine Pigeon was at the end of a busy overnight shift when he learned that paramedics were tending a newborn baby who had been found unconscious at a bus shelter in Longueuil, Que., early Monday morning.

The mood changed immediately, said the emergency physician at Charles-Le Moyne hospital.

He said, “All the tiredness and bad feelings of the night, which was our bed dream, just went away.”

When the baby was taken to the hospital, paramedics were attempting to revive the newborn – just like Dr. Camille Tetreault She was preparing for her day shift.

She was still in leggings when she joined the team of at least 15 people trying to revive the baby. According to the paramedic service for the Montérégie region of Quebec, the newborn was still attached to the umbilical cord, naked and very cold, when paramedics found him just after 6:30 a.m. ET.

After performing resuscitation maneuvers for an hour, the medical team made the difficult decision to stop, Pidgeon said.

Then, without any parents present to break the news, the doctors observed a minute of silence “to grieve the child no one knew about,” as they put it.

the hint is something Tetreault She said, whenever she faces a tough defeat she tries to do the same.

“We’ve become used to seeing trauma everywhere. It remains difficult,” he said. “I am sorry for everything that happened that day; the child, the mother, the social safety net, and all of my coworkers who also had to work that day.”

Later on Monday morning, Service de Police de l’Agglomeration de Longueuil (SPAL) arrested a 33-year-old woman in connection with the death of her child.

SPAL said the woman was released from police custody on Tuesday, received psychological and physical support and is in the care of appropriate resources. Police are not confirming whether the woman is the mother of the child or not.

Jacqueline Pierre, a spokeswoman for SPAL, wrote in a statement to CBC, “The investigation is ongoing and no charges have been laid yet. Police cannot yet determine whether there will be any charges.”

According to the Executive Director of La Halte du Coin, There is a homeless shelter a short distance from the bus stop where the child was found, the woman had taken a seat in its warming center around 3 a.m. and fallen asleep.

Pierre Rousseau says that when she got up from her seat around 8 a.m., her team noticed something unusual and alerted police officers who were already there searching for someone in distress.

Police took the woman into custody, although they did not confirm with CBC whether she was the same woman arrested in connection with the child’s death.

Dove says he feels for the child’s mother who may have felt she had no other choice.

“The resources are there,” he said. “Of course you may feel distressed but all the medical professionals, police, firefighters – everyone who is working to help others – are there to help you without judgment.”

Later that day, Pidgeon shared his experience on Facebook in an effort to show what daily life is like for doctors Adoption of Bill 2Doctors across the province have condemned the health minister’s special law, arguing it makes him lazy and responsible for dysfunction within the health-care system.

The law, in part, links doctors’ remuneration to collective performance indicators such as reducing ER wait times.

“How can we calculate our performance as an emergency department and as physicians ourselves, through such human cases, such humanity, such a crisis that we have to deal with,” Pidgeon said.

“I don’t want to think about being ‘performing’ every minute of my day because sometimes some matters require more attention, more effort, more time.”