If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

That old adage may apply to Wednesday’s announcement by Santé Québec that less than a year into its mandate, it has already succeeded in slashing the number of “service disruptions” in hospitals and long-term care centres, from 1,750 in the summer of 2024 to just 310 for the equivalent period this year.

And even among those remaining 310 disruptions (which were not specified), Santé Québec claimed it had eased their severity through “mitigation measures” (also not specified).

Maryse Poupart, Santé Québec’s vice-president of operations and co-ordination, appeared to declare victory in the war against the province’s mammoth health bureaucracy.

“Advance preparation for this period and the deployment of more effective monitoring tool

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